Eric Jerome Dickey

The New York Times stated, “Mr. Dickey’s characters have enough sultry self-confidence to suggest, at their best, a Prince song on paper.”

Eric Jerome Dickey was named Distinguished Lecturer of the Leimert Park Village Book Fair, August 2018.

Beta Psi Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha presented Eric Jerome Dickey the Alpha Award of Merit in June, 2018.

His books Sleeping with Strangers and Waking with Enemies were released on April 10, 2007 and August 7, 2007, respectively. His 14th novel, Pleasure, was released in April 2008. On November 1, 2008 Dickey released his 15th solo work entitled Dying for Revenge.

Eric Jerome Dickey won 2007 Fiction and Author of the Year (Sleeping with Strangers), 2009 Fiction (Dying for Revenge), 2013 Author of the Year (Blackbirds), and 2017 Author of the Year (Finding Gideon) as part of Yvette Hayward's African American Literary Awards Show held in the mecca of publishing, New York City. It is the only ongoing literary awards show that recognizes griots from the diaspora.

In the 2007 Glyph Comics Awards, the Fan Award for Best Comic was won by Storm, by Eric Jerome Dickey.

Sister, Sister; Friends and Lovers; Milk in My Coffee; Cheaters; and Liar's Game each reached #1 on the "Blackboard Bestsellers List." Cheaters was named "Blackboard Book of the Year" in 2000. Liar's Game, Thieves' Paradise, The Other Woman, and Genevieve have also given Dickey the added distinction of being nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work in 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2005. In 2006, he was honored with the awards for Best Contemporary Fiction and Author of the Year (Male) at the 2006 African American Literary Award Show, an honor which was repeated in 2007. In 2009, at the African American Literary Award Show, Dying for Revenge received the award for Best fiction. In 2008, Eric was nominated for Storyteller of the Year at the 1st annual ESSENCE Literary Awards. Numerous Awards at the African American Literary Awards Show over several years, most recently Male Author of the Year 2012. 2013, he received the R.E.A.D. Award on behalf of the National Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

He then developed a screenplay called "Cappuccino". Directed and produced by Craig Ross Jr., it appeared in coffeehouses around the Los Angeles area. In February 1998, "Cappuccino" made its local debut during the Pan-African Film Festival at the Magic Johnson Theater in Los Angeles.

Dickey wrote several comedy scripts for his personal comedy act, and later began writing short stories. In 1994, his first published short story "Thirteen" appeared in the IBWA's River Crossing, Voices of the Diaspora--an Anthology of the International Black Experience. A second short story, "Days Gone By", was published in the magazine A Place to Enter.

Eric Jerome Dickey (born July 7, 1961) is a New York Times best-selling American author best known for his novels about contemporary African-American life. He is also known for writing several crime novels involving grifters, ex cons, and assassins, the latter novels having more diverse settings, moving from Los Angeles to the United Kingdom to the West Indies, each having an international cast of characters.

Eric Jerome Dickey was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on July 7, 1961. He grew up on the south side of Memphis, living on Kansas Street. He attended Riverview Elementary, Riverview Junior High, and Carver High. After graduating high school, he went to college at Memphis State University, where he earned a degree in Computer System Technology. In 1983, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in engineering.