From 1965, he lived in the same apartment in Manhattan, one once rented by critic James Agee, whom Dickerson claimed to have spiritual contact with.
17 Facts About George Dickerson
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George Dickerson served in the US Army from December 1953 to the fall of 1954.
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George Dickerson graduated from Yale University in 1955, after studying with novelist and poet Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks, advocates of New Criticism.
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George Dickerson maintained long term friendships with many well-known artists, including songwriter Leonard Cohen, actor Richard Widmark, playwright Arthur Miller, actor Roscoe Lee Browne, opera soprano Leontyne Price, Edna St Vincent Millay's sister, Norma Ellis, John Farrar, and ex-Poet Laureate Mark Strand.
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George Dickerson married four times and had five children: two daughters by his first wife, a son by his third wife, a daughter by his fourth wife, and a son born out of wedlock with a Finnish journalist; Finnish film director Dome Karukoski.
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George Dickerson spoke five languages: English, French, German, Arabic, and Italian.
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George Dickerson died after a long illness in early 2015, surrounded by the people closest to him.
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George Dickerson's death was made public by his son Dome via Facebook on January 13,2015.
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George Dickerson then worked at Time magazine, The New Yorker, and Story magazine.
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George Dickerson published several short stories and began an uncompleted novel about the fashion industry.
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George Dickerson was published in The New Yorker, Mademoiselle, The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, and Penthouse.
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George Dickerson's poetry has been praised by critics such as Nicholas Birns who reviewed it for the Hollins Critic.
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George Dickerson wrote drama, including a one-man play, A Few Useless Mementos For Sale.
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George Dickerson returned from Lebanon to the United States and became an actor, taking roles in the television series Hill Street Blues, as Police Commander Swanson, and Detective Williams in David Lynch's film Blue Velvet.
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George Dickerson featured in the soap opera Search for Tomorrow, as well as local theater and independent films, such as Broken Giant, Ties to Rachel, and Stranger in the Kingdom.
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George Dickerson had major roles in films like Psycho II, Space Raiders, The Star Chamber, No Mercy, Death Wish 4: The Crackdown, After Dark, My Sweet, and Death Warrant.
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George Dickerson was a member of SAG, AFTRA, Actors' Equity, the Dramatists' Guild, the Author's Guild, the Academy of American Poets, and AMPAS.