Background
Jack Bickham was born on September 2, 1930, in Columbus, Ohio, United States of America.
Jack Bickham was born on September 2, 1930, in Columbus, Ohio, United States of America.
In Jack's early career, he worked for the Norman Transcript as a reporter from 1956 to 1960. For the next six years, he was the assistant Sunday editor on the Daily Oklahoman. After working as managing editor of the Oklahoma Courier from 1966 to 1969, he joined the faculty at the University of Oklahoma. He also taught journalism at Oklahoma City University in the 1960s. Several of his novels were turned into films. These include "The Apple Dumpling Gang", "Dinah, Blow Your Horn", "Baker’s Hawk", and "Katie, Kelly and Heck."
Bickham is a member of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame.