Eric Jerome Dickey

Eric Jerome Dickey was an American author.

Dickey was a best-selling novelist who told stories about contemporary African-American life in such books as Sister, Sister, Waking With Enemies, Sleeping With Strangers, and Resurrecting Midnight. He wrote 29 novels in all.

Dickey was a native of Memphis, Tennessee, and a computer technology major at the University of Memphis. He moved to Los Angeles after college and worked as a software engineer in the aerospace industry, but soon found himself becoming more interested in the arts. He tried his hand at acting and stand-up comedy, and became one of the featured actors on the teen soap opera Almost There!, which aired from 1989 to 1993.

He also worked on the screenplay for the 1998 film Cappuccino, wrote a comic book miniseries for Marvel, and contributed to such anthologies as Mothers and Sons and Black Silk: A Collection of African American Erotica.

Dickey's final book, The Son of Mr. Suleman, is scheduled for release in April 2021.

Dickey died January 3, 2021, in Los Angeles, California. He was 59.