Background

Jack Bickham was born on September 2, 1930, in Columbus, Ohio, United States of America.

Career

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."

Achievements

• Bickham was famous as a prolific writer of western, mystery, and adventure novels, including "The Apple Dumpling Gang", "Gunman's Gamble", "Hangman’s Territory", and "Katie, Kelly and Heck." He was the 1998 winner of the Arrell Gibson time Achievement Award.
  
  Sigma Delta Chi named him editor of the year in 1969, the Oklahoma Writers Federation awarded him the trophy for best novel several times, and the Florence
  
  Roberts Head Memorial Award was bestowed on him for "I Still Dream about Columbus."

Works

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  • Breakfast at Wimbledon 1993
  • Dinah, Blow Your Horn 1982
  • Twister 1978
  • I Still Dream About Columbus: A Novel 1982
  • Tiebreaker 1989
  • The Silver Bullet Gang (A Black bat mysery) 1974
  • The Night Hunters 1973
  • Day Seven 1988
  • The Davis Cup Conspiracy 1994
  • The Excalibur disaster 1978
  • Ariel 1984
  • Operation nightfall: A novel of suspense 1975
  • Double Fault 1993
  • Overhead 1991
  • All the Days Were Summer 1981
  • Miracleworker 1987
  • The Apple Dumpling Gang 1971
  • Writing novels that sell 1989

Membership

Bickham is a member of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame.