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Deliverance Study Guide

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by James Dickey
About 70 pages (21,030 words)
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Author Biography

James Dickey's life was remarkable for the number of his vocations, any one of which could have kept another person busy for a lifetime. He was a soldier, a teacher, a hunter, a novelist, and an advertising executive. Most of all. though, he was a poet, having produced a number of outstanding, award-winning volumes of poetry. Poetry was the main vocation that he claimed, and it was as a poet that he defined himself.

Dickey was born in 1923, in Buckhead. a suburb of Atlanta. His family was wealthy. In high school and college, he participated on the football team, but after his first year at Clemson, he enrolled in the Air Corps. During World War II, Dickey flew nearly a hundred missions in the Pacific. He claimed that it was while he was in the.....

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