# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christopher-dickey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:10:29.871Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christopher-dickey"
name: "Christopher Dickey"
slug: "christopher-dickey"
description: "Christopher Swift Dickey was an American journalist, author, and news editor. He was the Paris-based world news editor for The Daily Beast. He authored seven books, including Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South (2015); Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterror Force – the NYPD (2009), and a memoir, Summer of Deliverance (1998), about his father, the poet/novelist James Dickey."
tagline: "American magazine editor (1951-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/30._ISC-Symposium-Christopher_Dickey-HSGN_028-01450.tif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1951-08-31"
deathDate: "2020-07-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.04
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.083730666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  78
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/csdickey"
    handle:    "csdickey"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.christopherdickey.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B1_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A"
    title: "كريستوفر ديكي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dickey"
    title: "Christopher Dickey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dickey"
    title: "Christopher Dickey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5112221"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations