Daniel Whitehead Hicky
Daniel Whitehead Hicky, known to friends as Jack Hicky, was a prominent Atlanta poet, world traveler, and businessman, who in his day was the toast of the literati and one of the most widely published poets in America . His ancestors included William Whitehead, an English poet and playwright who became Poet Laurate of England in 1757.
Daniel Whitehead Hicky a.k.a. Jack was born in Social Circle, Georgia, and very shortly thereafter his parents moved to Memphis, Tennessee and Charlotte, North Carolina, where he was educated in private schools. While attending St. Pauls school in Memphis, Hicky wrote a poem called, Mother, which the faculty applauded and approved for publishing in the school annual. His mother was thrilled, but his father wrote a note which read, Dear Son Dont ever let this happen again. In 1919 the family came back to Georgia for residence, locating in Atlanta, where he first began writing poems which appeared in Frank L. Stantons Just from Georgia, he also became connected with a local cotton firm. Hicky remained at the cotton firm for eight years, continuing his writing during lulls in the routine of his office duties, and in the evenings at his home. By 1934, Hicky left the cotton business to devote himself to fulltime writing, and traveled the Mediterrean, Europe, Egypt, The Holy Land, Africa, Th
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