Eric Jerome Dickey was born in Memphis, Tennessee on July 7, 1961. He grew up on the south side of Memphis, living on Kansas Street. He went to Riverview Elementary, Riverview Junior High, and Carver High. After graduating high school, he went to college at Memphis state university, where he earned a degree in Computer System Technology. In 1983, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in engineering.
Dickey was employed in the aerospace industry working at Rockwell International, ASSD division, as a software developer, before deciding that he wanted to pursue acting and stand up comedy, and began the local and national comedy circuit.
Dickey wrote several comedy scripts for his personal comedy act, and later began writing short stories. In 1994, his first published short story "Thirteen" appeared in the IBWA's River Crossing, Voices of the Diaspora--an Anthology of the International Black Experience. A second short story "Days Gone By" was published in the magazineA Place to Enter.
I think his background reflects in his writings a lot because in them, he talks a lot about Tennessee which is where he was born. In his stories, it always have some humorous facts in them as well.