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Eric Jerome Dickey, best-selling African American novelist, dies at 59 Emily Langer Eric Jerome Dickey, a novelist who gained a devoted following among African American women and a steady spot on the bestseller lists with page-turning narratives of steamy romance and urban intrigue, died Jan. 3 in Los Angeles. He was 59. The cause was cancer, according to Amanda Walker, publicity director at Dutton, the imprint of Penguin Random House that published Mr. Dickey’s books. A onetime software engineer who discovered fiction through creative writing classes, Mr. Dickey wrote 29 books that together sold more than 7 million copies, according to Dutton. He made his debut as a novelist in 1996 with “Sister, Sister,” described by Publishers Weekly as a “high-spirited celebration of black sisterhood,” and by 2014 the New York Times had anointed him “one of the few kings of popular African-American fiction for women.”

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