- Date Of Birth: July 7, 1961
- Date Of Death: January 3, 2021
- Occupation: Author
- City: Los Angeles
- State: California
Eric Jerome Dickey (July 7, 1961 – January 3, 2021) was an American author. He wrote 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. Dickey was a New York Times bestselling novelist.
On January 3, 2021, Dickey died of cancer in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 59. His death was confirmed in an official statement from his publisher, Dutton. A The New York Times obituary described Dickey as “one of the most successful Black authors of the last quarter-century”. – Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License from Wikipedia.