George Graf Dickerson, Jr. (July 25, 1933 â€" January 10, 2015) was an
American actor, writer, and poet.Dickerson was born July 25, 1933, in
Topeka, Kansas, to George Graf Dickerson, a lawyer, and Elizabeth
Dickerson (née Naumann), parents he did not have a good relationship
with. He had one brother, five years his junior. As a child, his
family lived in Michigan, the South Side of Chicago, Queens, New York,
and Virginia. 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.Dickerson served in the U.S. Army from December
1953 to the fall of 1954. He graduated from Yale University in 1955,
after studying with novelist and poet Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth
Brooks, advocates of New Criticism. After working a teaching job in
Vermont, Dickerson read his poems at venues with Beatnik poets such as
Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, and Ted Joans. His poetry was praised
by novelist Norman Mailer.
American actor, writer, and poet.Dickerson was born July 25, 1933, in
Topeka, Kansas, to George Graf Dickerson, a lawyer, and Elizabeth
Dickerson (née Naumann), parents he did not have a good relationship
with. He had one brother, five years his junior. As a child, his
family lived in Michigan, the South Side of Chicago, Queens, New York,
and Virginia. 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.Dickerson served in the U.S. Army from December
1953 to the fall of 1954. He graduated from Yale University in 1955,
after studying with novelist and poet Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth
Brooks, advocates of New Criticism. After working a teaching job in
Vermont, Dickerson read his poems at venues with Beatnik poets such as
Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, and Ted Joans. His poetry was praised
by novelist Norman Mailer.
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