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Meet the Author: Eric Jerome Dickey
Eric Jerome Dickey, originally from Memphis, is the national best-selling author of Naughty or Nice, The Other Woman, Thieves' Paradise, Between Lovers, Liar's Game, Cheaters, Milk in My Coffee, Friends and Lovers, and Sister Sister. Before becoming a novelist, he worked as a computer programmer, a middle school teacher, actor and stand up comic. His Latest book is Drive Me Crazy.
Q&A with Eric Jerome Dickey
Q: Eight years after you wrote your first novel (Sister, Sister), you’ve become a New York Times best selling author. What’s your reaction to the level of support you have received from readers?
A: It didn’t start off like this. It took a lot of hustle – going to book conventions, on book tours. I was a guy writing in a female voice, and people would criticize me for writing from a woman’s point of view. It wasn’t until the third or fourth year that I got a decent break. But I hung in there hustling…doing book signings, special events, lots of interviews.
Q: You’ve had a lot of different careers. Any one you’d go back to if you weren’t a writer?
A: The one he had the most fun was working at Fed Ex – there was a lot of physical work, and I loved the physical activity.
Q: Does having been a standup comedian make it easier for you to incorporate humor throughout your novels?
A: Being a stand up comedian – acting in non-union projects and community theater, off Hollywood boulevard theater, in local cable public access sitcoms and soap operas – those things help my writing. It’s easy having characters say witty things…
Q: What other books and authors do you like?
A: Right now I’m reading Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons. I just finished Walter Moseley’s Little Scarlet: An Easy Rawlins Mystery.
Interview Date: July 2004
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