Christopher Dickey

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Christopher Dickey, born August 31, 1951, is the Paris Bureau Chief and Middle East Regional Editor for Newsweek magazine. Previously he worked for The Washington Post as Cairo Bureau Chief and Central America Bureau Chief. Dickey's Shadowland column, about counter-terrorism, espionage and the Middle East, appears weekly on Newsweek Online.

Dickey's books include With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua ([1], 1986); Expats: Travels in Arabia from Tripoli to Tehran (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990); Innocent Blood: A Novel (Simon & Schuster, 1997), and Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son (Simon & Schuster, 1998), about his relationship with his father, poet and novelist James Dickey. His most recent novel,The Sleeper, was published by Simon & Schuster in September 2004. The New York Times called it "a first-rate thriller."

Dickey has also written for "Foreign Affairs", "Vanity Fair", "The New Yorker", "Wired", "Rolling Stone", "The New York Review of Book", "The New York Times Book Review", and "The New Republic", among other publications. He is a frequent commentator on CNN, MSNBC and National Public Radio, as well as other television and radio networks.

Dickey is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he was formerly an Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow; of the Overseas Press Club of America; and of the Anglo-American Press Association of Paris.

[edit] Bibliography

  • The Sleeper
  • Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son
  • Innocent Blood: A Novel
  • Expats: Travels in Arabia from Tripoli to Tehran
  • With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua

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