The Scourges of Heaven
by David Dick
Biography
from a June 15, 1998 press release from University Press of Kentucky
David B. Dick was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on February 18, 1930. At the age of 18 months, he and his mother returned to live in her native Bourbon County, Kentucky. After graduating from North Middletown High School in 1948, Dick attended the University of Kentucky, where he received a B.A. (1951) and an M.A. (1956) in English Literature.
Dick worked as a writer for WHAS Radio and Television in Louisville from 1959-66 and became an on-air journalist. In 1966 he was hired by CBS News with his first assignment in Washington, DC (1966-1970). For the next seven years he was based at the CBS bureau in Atlanta, spent a year as Latin American Bureau Chief in Caracas, and worked out of Dallas in the Southwest Bureau until 1985. Dick covered three presidential campaigns by Governor George Wallace and received an Emmy in 1972 for his coverage of Wallace’s attempted assassination. During his career with CBS, Dick covered wars in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Beirut, and Argentina’s invasion of the Falkland Islands.
Upon his retirement from CBS, Dick was appointed associate professor of journalism at the University of Kentucky. In 1987 he was inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame and was appointed director of the School of Journalism, a post he held until 1993.
Between 1991 and 1997, he was Orator for the University of Kentucky. He is currently a featured speaker for the Kentucky Humanities Council and a syndicated columnist for Kentucky Living Magazine. From 1988-90, he was publisher of The Bourbon Times, a weekly newspaper he established that won 257 Kentucky Press Association Awards.
Dick is the author of four books, The View from Plum Lick (1992), Follow the Storm (1993), Peace at the Center (1994), and A Conversation with Peter P. Pence (1995, all Plum Lick Press). The Scourges of Heaven (University Press of Kentucky, 1998) is his first novel. Charles Kuralt has called David Dick’s work “rich and deep and full of the joy of life.”
Dick lives with his wife and daughter on a farm in central Kentucky that was purchased with British Crowns by his ancestor in 1799.
For additional information, please contact: Leila Salisbury, Publicity, The University Press of Kentucky, 663 South Limestone Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40508, (859) 257-8761.
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