Writing
By 1960, Dickerson was working at the Macmillan Publishing Company. He then worked at Time magazine, The New Yorker, and Story magazine. While reviewing literature for Time, Dickerson helped to promote the careers of such young writers (at that time) as John Irving, Cormac McCarthy, Donald Barthelme, Robert Stone, and Don DeLillo.
Dickerson has published several short stories and beginning an uncompleted novel. His short story Chico appeared in The Best American Short Stories of 1963, and was praised by poet e.e. cummings. His short story A Mussel Named Ecclesiastes appeared in The Best American Short Stories of 1966. He has been published in The New Yorker, Mademoiselle, The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, and Penthouse.
After his time in Lebanon, Dickerson suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and suffered a decades long bout of writer's block. By the mid-1990s, Dickerson began to write poetry again. A book of his, Selected Poems, was published in 2000, by Rattapallax publishing company and journal, which he helped to found. Dickerson has also written drama, including a one man play, A Few Useless Mementos For Sale.
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