Career
From 1997 to 2001,Dickerson published a biweekly column on fishing and the outdoors in the Addison Independent,a local newspaper. [7] Since 2002,he has been the director of the New England Young Writers Conference, [8] an annual four-day conference for high school students in Bread Loaf,Vermont,that is associated with Middlebury College. He is also the founding director of the Vermont Conference on Christianity and the Arts. [8] [9] He plays bass in a Vermont-based blues band,Deep Freyed. [10]
Tolkien scholarship
Dickerson is the author of six non-technical books,most of them about fantasy fiction. His 2003 book Following Gandalf:Epic Battles and Moral Victory in The Lord of the Rings , [11] a study of the moral and Christian values expressed by Tolkien's works,highlights the contrasts between moral and physical victories,and between heroism and violence;it points out the necessity of having free will in order to make moral choices. [12] It was shortlisted for the Mythopoeic Society's 2004 and 2005 Mythopoeic Scholarship Awards. [13] He has written a pair of books on Tolkien,C. S. Lewis,and environmentalism,Ents,Elves,and Eriador:The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien [14] [15] and Narnia and the Fields of Arbol:The Environmental Vision of C. S. Lewis. [16] [17] Despite giving the first of these two books an overall negative review,reviewer Patrick Curry writes that it is "a major new contribution to the subject of Tolkien's work". [15]
Other books
His other books include The Finnsburg Encounter. [18] a work of historical fiction,translated into German as Licht uber Friesland, [19] Hammers and Nails:The Life and Music of Mark Heard, [20] a biography of musician Mark Heard, [21] and From Homer to Harry Potter:A Handbook on Myth and Fantasy. [22] [23]
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