James Dickey The World As a Lie Author:Henry Hart James Dickey was the maker of his own mystique. He portrayed himself as sports star, war hero, businessman, outdoorsman, a voracious consumer of both alcohol and women, the Georgia mountain boy turned National Book Award winning poet and bestselling novelist who became one of the most popular and notorious writers of the 1960s and 1970s. This au... more »thoritative, immensely entertaining biography delves deeply behind his subject's many masks. Utilizing letters, dozens of interviews, archival research into unpublished manuscripts, and drawing on James Dickey's own reluctant but candid cooperation, Henry Hart sorts the tall tales from the true ones.« less