Foster Dickson: I Just Make People Up
Foster Dickson is a writer, editor and teacher in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the author of three books: Kindling Not Yet Split (Court Street Press, 2002), I Just Make People Up: Ramblings with Clark Walker (NewSouth Books, 2009), and The Life and Poetry of John Beecher (Edwin Mellen Press, 2009), and the general editor of Treasuring Alabama's Black Belt (AUM/AHF, 2009).
Left: the front cover, and Right: Foster and Clark in 2007 (photo by Valerie Downes)
I Just Make People Up: Ramblings with Clark Walker is a biographical sketch and retrospective on Montgomery artist Clark Walker, who has had a more-than-fifty year career as an artist, beginning with his first award in the mid-1950s when he was a high school student. The text of the book is based on a series of interviews with Clark Walker in 2004, at a time when his studio was across the street from Foster's home on South Hull Street. The collection and editing of art for the full-color images in the book, done by Foster Dickson and artist/designer Valerie Downes, occurred in the subsequent years, 2006 and 2007.
The book was released in January 2009 by NewSouth Books (ISBN: 1603060456). Foster Dickson and/or Clark Walker have attended events for the book at:
Stonehenge Gallery in Montgomery
Capitol Book & News in Montgomery
The Alabama Book Festival
Gallery East in Montgomery
Black Belt Treasures in Camden.
Currently, there are no signings or events scheduled for the book. However, it is available is at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Gift Shop, Capitol Book & News, Stonehenge Gallery, NewSouth Books, and through third-party sellers on Amazon.com.
Praise for I Just Make People Up
". . . Foster Dickson's narrative biography of Clark Walker is a triumph of the as-told-to style of writing." -- Julia Oliver, author of Music of Falling Water, Goodbye to the Butermilk Sky, and Devotion, writing for the Alabama Writers Forum.
"Reading Foster Dickson's book about renowned artist Clark Walker is like eavesdropping in the shadows as the two Montgomery men carry on a lively conversation with each other. . . . Dickson's writing style flows with dialogue. His descriptive words capture Walker's modest demeanor, dry wit, and free-spirited lifestyle." -- Martha Rouse Gates, writing for the Montgomery Advertiser.
Foster and Clark at Black Belt Treasures in 2009
Foster Dickson is a writer, editor and teacher in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the author of three books: Kindling Not Yet Split (Court Street Press, 2002), I Just Make People Up: Ramblings with Clark Walker (NewSouth Books, 2009), and The Life and Poetry of John Beecher (Edwin Mellen Press, 2009), and the general editor of Treasuring Alabama's Black Belt (AUM/AHF, 2009).
Left: the front cover, and Right: Foster and Clark in 2007 (photo by Valerie Downes)
I Just Make People Up: Ramblings with Clark Walker is a biographical sketch and retrospective on Montgomery artist Clark Walker, who has had a more-than-fifty year career as an artist, beginning with his first award in the mid-1950s when he was a high school student. The text of the book is based on a series of interviews with Clark Walker in 2004, at a time when his studio was across the street from Foster's home on South Hull Street. The collection and editing of art for the full-color images in the book, done by Foster Dickson and artist/designer Valerie Downes, occurred in the subsequent years, 2006 and 2007.
The book was released in January 2009 by NewSouth Books (ISBN: 1603060456). Foster Dickson and/or Clark Walker have attended events for the book at:
Currently, there are no signings or events scheduled for the book. However, it is available is at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Gift Shop, Capitol Book & News, Stonehenge Gallery, NewSouth Books, and through third-party sellers on Amazon.com.
Praise for I Just Make People Up
". . . Foster Dickson's narrative biography of Clark Walker is a triumph of the as-told-to style of writing." -- Julia Oliver, author of Music of Falling Water, Goodbye to the Butermilk Sky, and Devotion, writing for the Alabama Writers Forum.
"Reading Foster Dickson's book about renowned artist Clark Walker is like eavesdropping in the shadows as the two Montgomery men carry on a lively conversation with each other. . . . Dickson's writing style flows with dialogue. His descriptive words capture Walker's modest demeanor, dry wit, and free-spirited lifestyle." -- Martha Rouse Gates, writing for the Montgomery Advertiser.
Foster and Clark at Black Belt Treasures in 2009