What is Eric Jerome Dickey?
[[File:Eric jerome dickey light balanced.JPG|thumb|200px|Dickey in [[Gaithersburg, Maryland|Gaithersburg]], 2014]] '''Eric Jerome Dickey''' (July 7, 1961 – January 3, 2021) was an [[Americans|American]] author. He wrote novels about [[contemporary]] [[African-American]] life. He also wrote crime novels about grifters, former [[convict]]s and [[assassin]]s. He was a ''[[New York Times]]'' bestselling author. Dickey was born in [[Memphis, Tennessee]]. He went to the [[University of Memphis]]. Dickey died of [[cancer]] in [[Los Angeles, California]], on January 3, 2021. He was 59.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-01-05/eric-jerome-dickey-death-milk-in-my-coffee|title=Bestselling novelist Eric Jerome Dickey dies at 59|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=January 5, 2021|access-date=January 6, 2021|author=Carras, Christi}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat}} *{{Official|http://www.ericjeromedickey.com/web/}} *{{IMDb name|0225461}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Dickey, Eric Jerome}} [[Category:1961 births]] [[Category:2021 deaths]] [[Category:African-American writers]] [[Category:American novelists]] [[Category:Cancer deaths in Los Angeles]] [[Category:Writers from Memphis, Tennessee]] {{US-bio-stub}}