Christopher Dickey

Christopher Dickey
Born(1951-08-31)31 August 1951
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Died16 July 2020(2020-07-16) (aged 68)
Paris, France
Occupation(s)Journalist, author, and news editor
Parent(s)Maxine Syerson and James Dickey[1][2]
FamilyCarol Dickey (wife)
James Dickey (son)
Bronwen Dickey (sister)
Kevin Dickey (brother)
Websitechristopherdickey.com

Christopher Swift Dickey (August 31, 1951 – July 16, 2020)[3][4] was an American journalist, author, and news editor. He was the Paris-based world news editor for The Daily Beast.[5] He authored seven books, including Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South (2015); Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterror Force – the NYPD (2009), and a memoir, Summer of Deliverance (1998), about his father, the poet/novelist James Dickey.

  1. ^ Booknotes interview with Dickey on Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son Archived 2011-11-15 at the Wayback Machine, October 18, 1998
  2. ^ Christopher Dickey on Terrorism, and Moving Beyond a Famous Father Archived 2010-03-28 at the Wayback Machine Interview with BU Today, Sept 30 2009
  3. ^ Latza Nadeau, Barbie (16 July 2020). "Legendary Foreign Correspondent Chris Dickey Dies in Paris". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Dickey-NYT was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Christopher Dickey - Biography". christopherdickey.com.