Fred Dickey
Author Interview - Fred Dickey
Author of Days of Hope - Miles of Misery - Love and Loss on the Oregon Trail
“They knew the trip would be difficult, but they didn't bargain on hell. The shout "giddap" starts the oxen down a path to the end of the world. For five months, and two thousand miles, the wagon train lumbers toward California on the Oregon Trail and into big trouble. The emigrants endure disease, dirt, attacks from outlaws, and invaded Indians. Bitter strife erupts between ill-matched pioneers forced together by necessity. The 1845 wagon train is part of a vast westward movement; a monument to Americana that fascinates readers 175 years later. Beyond all they must endure, the pioneers keep fighting, and keep coming. Those who make it are survivors; survivors with a great story to tell.”
Author Interview - Fred Dickey
Author I draw inspiration from: Joyce Carol Oats
Author Interview - Fred Dickey
Favorite place to read a book: Easy chair with a good lamp.
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with: Richard the Third
Author Interview - Fred Dickey
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author: High School.
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook: All 3.
The last book I read: H.W. Brands' The Age of Gold
Author Interview - Fred Dickey
Pen & paper or computer: Computer
Book character I think I’d be best friends with: Nellie Bly; book is A Feigned Madness by Tonya Mitchell, and another one is just called Nellie Bly (a history).
Author Interview - Fred Dickey
If I weren’t an author, I’d be a: Editor and journalist (which I was for most of my life).
Favorite decade in fashion history: 1890s
Place I’d most like to travel: Northern California
My signature drink: Non-alcoholic Beck's beer.
Favorite artist: Edvard Munch
Number one on my bucket list: To get healthy.
Anything else you'd like to add: I love to FINISH my writing.
Find more from the author:
www.freddickey.net
FB: @freddickey79
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2928602.Fred_Dickey
Author Bio: Fred Dickey is a popular published novelist. He is a repeat Pulitzer nominee and with numerous national and state awards as a metro newspaper columnist and executive editor. One novel went into six languages.
