Christopher Dickey
Christopher Dickey | |
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| Born | 31 August 1951 Nashville, Tennessee, United States |
| Died | 16 July 2020 (aged 68) Paris, France |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, author, and news editor |
| Parent(s) | Maxine Syerson and James Dickey |
| Family | Carol Dickey (wife) James Dickey (son) Bronwen Dickey (sister) Kevin Dickey (brother) |
| Website | christopherdickey.com |
Christopher Swift Dickey (August 31, 1951 – July 16, 2020) was an American journalist, author, and news editor. He was the Paris-based world news editor for The Daily Beast. 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.