Born February 18, 1930, in Cincinnati, Ohio, David Dick was 18 months old when his father, a physician and surgeon, died, and his mother returned with her three small children to her native Bourbon County, Kentucky.

An Eagle Scout by the age of 16, he graduated from North Middletown High School in 1948 then attended the University of Kentucky from 1948-1951 and 1955-1956. He received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in English Literature.

His first job as a writer was for WHAS Radio and Television in Louisville, where he worked from 1959-1966 and became an on-air journalist. CBS News hired him in 1966. His first assignment was in Washington, D.C., followed by seven years in CBS' Southeast Bureau in Atlanta, a year in the Latin America Bureau in Caracas as Bureau Chief, and the remaining years of his 19-year CBS career were spent in Dallas with the Southwest Bureau.

Dick covered three presidential campaigns by Governor George Wallace and received an Emmy in 1972 for his coverage of the attempted assassination of Wallace. A Texas Emmy (the "Katy") was won by Dick for the report "How West Texas Farmers Cope With Drought." Dick covered wars in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Beirut and Argentina's invasion of the Falkland Islands, and the mass suicides in Jonestown, Guyana. Other international and domestic assignments included national political conventions, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, oil spills, volcanic eruptions, and many little stories about little people who never make headlines.

Upon retirement from CBS in 1985, Dick was named Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Kentucky. Inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame in 1987, he was appointed that same year as Director of the School of Journalism, a post he held until 1993. Between 1991 and 1997, he was the University Orator.

After he retired from UK in June 1996, he taught a course in journal keeping at Cumberland College, which, in May of 1996, conferred upon him an honorary doctorate degree in the humanities. In May of 2000 he received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Eastern Kentucky University and on May 19, 2000, he was inducted into the Hall of Distinguished Alumni for the University of Kentucky.

In May, 2003, Thomas More College awarded Dick the Thomas More Medallion and cited him for leadership in Kentucky and "qualities that we associate with our patron, Saint Thomas More."

A featured speaker for the Kentucky Humanities Council, he is the back-page columnist for the widest distributed magazine in the State of Kentucky, Kentucky Electric Cooperatives' Kentucky Living. In the three years he was publisher of The Bourbon Times (1988-90), a weekly newspaper he established in Bourbon County, the newspaper won 257 Kentucky Press Association Awards.

Since 1992, Plum Lick Publishing, Inc. has produced nine of David Dick's works; The View from Plum Lick (1992 [softcover] and 1997 [hardcover] non-fiction), Peace at the Center (1994, non-fiction), A Conversation with Peter P. Pence (1995, fiction), The Quiet Kentuckians (non-fiction-1996), Home Sweet Kentucky, which was co-authored with his wife, "Lalie," and published in the fall of 1999, is a gathering of the best of their writings in Kentucky Living and Kentucky Farm Bureau's All Around Kentucky. In the foreword, Byron Crawford says "(they) looked into Kentucky's eyes and saw clear through to her soul." Rivers of Kentucky, also non-fiction, and published March 1, 2001, is used as a graduate-level history text book by two colleges and universities. Rivers was a finalist for the Southeast Booksellers Association's 2002 Nonfiction Book of the Year. Follow the Storm: A Long Way Home, chronicles Dick's career as a CBS News foreign and domestic Emmy-Award-winning correspondent.

In 1998, the University Press of Kentucky chose Dick's first novel, The Scourges of Heaven to be the first original fiction it has ever published. Wade Hall said "Like a latter-day Voltaire, Dick takes us on a Candide-like adventure…he weaves a rich tapestry to show us the filthy, brutal conditions under which ordinary folks lived, their raucous humor and heroic deeds…a valuable and provocative book."

A biography by Dick, Jesse Stuart-The Heritage, about the internationally famous eastern Kentucky poet, novelist and short-story writer, will be featured at the Kentucky Book Fair, Saturday, November 13, 2004.

David's grandfather, C.W. Dick, was a late 19th-early-20th century Disciples of Christ minister in Louisville and North Middletown in Bourbon County. Today, David Dick lives on a farm purchased with British crowns by his ancestor, Joshua, in 1799. His wife, Lalie, is the former Eulalie Cumbo of Woodville, Mississippi and their 21-year-old daughter, Ravy Bradford Dick, the seventh generation on this land, is a student at University of Kentucky.

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