Eric Jerome Dickey was a prolific author whose novels depicted romance, erotica and suspense from the Black perspective, including 'Milk in My Coffee', 'Sleeping with Strangers', 'Sister, Sister' , 'Finding Gideon' and ' Friends and Lovers'. Dickey published 29 novels, in his conversational writing style, translated into more than 7 million books being sold worldwide. Graduated with a Bachelor of Science from Mempis University in 1983, Dickey pursued a career in engineering working as a software... moreEric Jerome Dickey was a prolific author whose novels depicted romance, erotica and suspense from the Black perspective, including 'Milk in My Coffee', 'Sleeping with Strangers', 'Sister, Sister' , 'Finding Gideon' and ' Friends and Lovers'. Dickey published 29 novels, in his conversational writing style, translated into more than 7 million books being sold worldwide. Graduated with a Bachelor of Science from Mempis University in 1983, Dickey pursued a career in engineering working as a software development before he took stand-up comedy and enterred into writing class at the instance of a friend. That grew into writing poetry and short stories before expanding to books. Dickey said that many of his earliest works, including 1996's Sister, Sister, focused on the lives of a certain type of Black women because, he noted, there was a lack of "any true literary representation." Dickey died of cancer in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 59.
