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

An Eagle Scout by the age of 16, he graduated in a class of 12 from North Middletown High School in 1948. He entered the Univerisity of Kentucky that fall and was a student and member of Kappa Alpha until 1951 when he left to serve in the U.S. Navy during the Korean Conflict. He returned to UK to complete his bachelor's degree in 1956 and, later, a master's degree in English Literature in 1964.

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 network 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 in the Southwest Bureau which included Mexico and Central and South America.

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 special 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 [now, University of the Cumberlands], 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."

Since 1989, he has been the back-page columnist for the widest distributed magazine in the State of Kentucky, Kentucky Electric Cooperatives' Kentucky Living, and in 2004, the cooperatives bestowed on Dick their Distinguished Rural Kentuckian Award. While 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 thirteen of David Dick's work; The View from Plum Lick, Peace at the Center, A Conversation with Peter P. Pence, The Quiet Kentuckians, Home Sweet Kentucky [co-authored with his wife, "Lalie"]

Rivers of Kentucky, published in March 1, 2001 and also co-authored with Lalie, is used as a graduate-level history text book by two Kentucky colleges and universities. Rivers was, in part, the inspiration for the 2005, year-long exhibit, A River Runs Through Us - Rivers of Kentucky, at the Thomas D. Clark History Center in Frankfort. It also was a finalist for the Southeast Book Publishers 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 had ever published. Wade Hall said "Like a latter-day Voltaire, Dick takes us on a Candide-like adventure …a valuable and provocative book."

Jesse Stuart-The Heritage, a biography by Dick about the internationally famous eastern Kentucky poet, novelist and short-story writer, is currently out of print. Kentucky - A State of Mind, also co-authored by the couple, is a collection of warm, nonfiction esays about Kentucky and Kentuckians.

A Journal for Lalie - Living Through Prostate Cancer, published in 2007, chronicles Dick's struggle with prostate cancer since 1993. It is a book for men who have, or may someday have, prostate cancer, and equally for the women who will follow in the Dick's footsteps as they negotiate the same rocky medical trail with their loved ones.

The thirteenth book, Let There Be Light - The Story of Rural Electrification, is the story of the humble beginnings, the early struggles, and the ultimate triumph of the electric cooperative idea in Kentucky. Much of the story is told by the individuals who lived it-men and women who recall the years of work to create the electric companies, and today's cooperative leaders who carry on a tradition that has changed the landscape of the Commonwealth ending the drudgery of former days.

By a former marriage, Dick has four children, Samuel Stephens II [Noelle], Deborah Ann Farr, Catherine Neal [Rusty] O'Shields, and Nell Brittain [Tim] Blankenship, seven grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. Together, Dick and Lalie have one daughter, Ravy Bradford.

Today, David Dick, sixth generation to do so, 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.

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