George Dickerson Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

George Dickerson (born July 25, 1933) is an American actor, writer, and poet. Dickerson was born July 25, 1933, in Topeka, Kansas, to George Graf Dickerson, a lawyer, and Elizabeth Dickerson (née Naumann), parents he did not have a good relationship with. He has one brother, five years his junior. As a child, he lived in Michigan, the South Side of Chicago, Queens, New York, and Virginia. Since 1965, he has lived in the same apartment in Manhattan, one once rented by critic James Agee, whom Dickerson claims to have spiritual contact with. Dickerson served in the U.S. Army from December... MORE

George Dickerson (born July 25, 1933) is an American actor, writer, and poet. Dickerson was born July 25, 1933, in Topeka, Kansas, to George Graf Dickerson, a lawyer, and Elizabeth Dickerson (née Naumann), parents he did not have a good relationship with. He has one brother, five years his junior. As a child, he lived in Michigan, the South Side of Chicago, Queens, New York, and Virginia. Since 1965, he has lived in the same apartment in Manhattan, one once rented by critic James Agee, whom Dickerson claims to have spiritual contact with. Dickerson served in the U.S. Army from December 1953 to the fall of 1954. He graduated from Yale University in 1955, after studying with novelist and poet Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks, advocates of New Criticism. After working a teaching job in Vermont, Dickerson read his poems at venues with Beatnik poets such as Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, and Ted Joans. His poetry was praised by novelist Norman Mailer. He has maintained long term friendships with many well-known artists, including songwriter Leonard Cohen, actor Richard Widmark, playwright Arthur Miller, actor Roscoe Lee Browne, opera soprano Leontyne Price, Edna St. Vincent LESS