Memphis author Eric Jerome Dickey dies at 59

Memphian and New York Occasions Greatest–Promoting creator Eric Jerome Dickey has died of most cancers. He was 59.

Family members confirmed the information on social media. Dickey’s publicist stated he died in Los Angeles after a protracted sickness.

Eric Jerome Dickey was born and raised in Memphis and attended the College of Memphis earlier than publishing his first brief story “13” in 1994. He was the creator of 29 novels, together with New York Occasions’ bestsellers Milk in My Espresso, Cheaters, Chasing Future, Liar’s Recreation, Between Lovers, Thieves’ Paradise, The Different Lady, Drive Me Loopy, Genevieve, Naughty or Good, Sleeping with Strangers, Waking with Enemies, Pleasure, Dying for Revenge, Resurrecting Midnight, Tempted by Bother, An Unintentional Affair, and Decadence. 

He was additionally honored with the NAACP Picture Award, named the Greatest Up to date Fiction and Writer of the Yr (Male) on the African American Literary Award Present in 2006 and named Storyteller of the Yr on the ESSENCE Literary Awards.

His work has been featured in publications comparable to Essence, The Washington Put up, The Los Angeles Occasions and The New York Occasions.

Eric Jerome Dickey leaves behind 4 daughters. There will likely be no service due to COVID-19.

He started working in standup parody and doing some acting and even movement while likewise composing dramas, screenplays, sonnets and stories. He distributed his first short story in 1994, and after two years discovered accomplishment with his first novel, “Sister, Sister,” which stays on paper in soft cover, Kindle and Audiobook releases.

“An entryway opened,” Dickey once composed of his passage into the distributing scene. “Furthermore, I put my foot in before they could close it.”

Depicted by Publishers Weekly as “a cheerful festival of dark sisterhood,” “Sister, Sister” a year ago was named one of the “50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years” by Essence magazine. Dedicated to books that “uncovered our loves, our tears, our victories and our strength,” as indicated by Essence, the rundown additionally included such writers as Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Alex Haley.

Considering Eric Jerome Dickey’s ubiquity with perusers, shockingly not many of the creator’s works have been adjusted for the films or TV. Notwithstanding, Dickey moved past conventional writing in the wake of discovering acclaim, stating “Tempest,” a 2006 comic-book miniseries turned realistic novel that envisions the primary gathering of “Wonder’s two pre-famous Black superheroes,” Storm, the African individual from the X-Men, and T’Challa, the Black Panther.

An individual from the Alpha Phi Alpha crew, Eric Jerome Dickey gives up four girls. He additionally leaves a last novel, “The Son of Mr. Suleman,” set to be distributed April 20.