Eric Jerome Dickey, the best-selling novelist who blended crime, romance and eroticism in Sister, Sister, Waking With Enemies and dozens of other stories about contemporary Black life, has died, He was 59.
Dickey's publicist at Penguin Random House, Emily Canders, told the Associated Press that the author died Sunday in Los Angeles after a long illness.
She did not immediately provide details beyond listing four daughters among his survivors. Dickey was an aspiring actor and stand-up comic who began writing fiction in his mid-30s and shaped a witty, conversational and sometimes graphic prose style.
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