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Homer Hickam (February 19, 1943–present)

Other Names Used

• Homer Hadley Hickam, Jr.: full name
• Sonny Hickam: name used as a boy

Alabama Connections

• Huntsville, Madison County: adult residence

Selected Works

• Hickam, Homer H., Jr. Torpedo Junction: U-Boat War Off America's East Coast, 1942. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1989.
• Hickam, Homer H., Jr. Rocket Boys: A Memoir. New York: Delacorte Press, 1998. Rpt. as October Sky. New York: Island Books and Dell Pub., 1999.
• Hickam, Homer H., Jr. Back to the Moon: A Novel. New York: Delacorte Press, 1999.
• Hickam, Homer. The Coalwood Way. New York: Delacorte Press, 2000.
• Hickam, Homer. Sky of Stone. New York: Delacorte Press, 2001.
• Hickam, Homer. The Keeper's Son. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2003.
• Hickam, Homer. The Ambassador's Son. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2005.
• Hickam, Homer. Red Helmet. Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, 2007.
• Homer Hickam. The Far Reaches. New York: Thomas Dunne Book

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  Homer Hickam

  Author Homer Hadley Hickam Jr. was born February 19, 1943, in Coalwood, McDowell County. He graduated from nearby Big Creek High School in 1960 and from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1964 with a B.S. in industrial engineering. Hickam served in the army in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Army Commendation and Bronze Star medals. He went to work for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at Marshall Space Flight Center in 1981 as an aerospace engineer. He retired from NASA in 1998.

  Hickam's first book was Torpedo Junction, a history of World War II submarine warfare off America's east coast, published in 1989. In 1998, Hickam's second book, Rocket Boys: A Memoir, the story of his life in the town of Coalwood, was published. A runaway bestseller, Rocket Boys was selected by the New York Times as one of its "Great Books of 1998" and nominated by the National Book Critics Circle as Best Biography of 1998. In February 1999, Universal Studios relea

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Homer Hickam

American author and engineer (born 1943)

Homer Hadley Hickam Jr. (born February 19, 1943) is an American author, Vietnam War veteran, and a former NASA engineer who trained the first Japanese astronauts. His 1998 memoirRocket Boys (also published as October Sky) was a New York Times Best Seller and was the basis for the 1999 film October Sky. Hickam's body of written work also includes several additional best-selling memoirs and novels, including the "Josh Thurlow" historical fiction novels, his 2015 best-selling Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of a Man, his Wife, and her Alligator and in 2021 the sequel to Rocket Boys titled Don't Blow Yourself Up: The Further Adventures and Travails of the Rocket Boy of October Sky. His books have been translated into many languages.

Early life and education

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Homer H. Hickam Jr. is the second son of Homer Sr. and Elsie Gardener Hickam (née Lavender).^[1][2] He was born and