Bestselling Novelist Eric Jerome Dickey Dead At 59

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Bestselling Novelist Eric Jerome Dickey Dead At 59

Jerome wrote Naughty or Nice,” “Waking With Enemies” and dozens of other stories about contemporary Black life

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