In 1993, retired CBS News correspondent David Dick was diagnosed with prostate cancer, a life-threatening disease that affects thousands of men. Over the years since that first diagnosis, he has seen his PSA (prostate-specific antigen) number rise and fall in response to a long list of medical procedures administered by a host of skilled medical specialists. He has written about each uncertain step of the way in a book, A Journal for Lalie Living Through Prostate Cancer, which has been dedicated to Lalie, his helpmeet. The publication date is January, 2008; however, the book is shipping to stores now in order to take advantage of year-end holiday sales. A Journal for Lalie is a book for men who have, or may someday have, prostate cancer, but equally for the women who will follow in David and Lalie Dick's footsteps as they negotiate the same rocky medical trail. It is David Dick's most personal book, yet one that will bring hope, laughter and inspiration to the thousands who have laughed and loved through his eleven previous books, including The View from Plum Lick, The Scourges of Heaven, and Rivers of Kentucky. David Dick's newest book is intended for a national readership at a time when prostate cancer has become increasingly widespread. Dick says, Of all the books I have written since leaving CBS News, A Journal for Lalie is without a doubt the most important. Through laughter and tears, it comes to terms with the reality of a treatable disease that claims the lives of so many. If the journal I have kept in the years from 1993 to 2007 saves just one life, the writing will have been worth all the effort.

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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 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 2003, 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 eleven of David Dick's work including The View from Plum Lick (1992, nonfiction), Peace at the Center (1994, nonfiction), A Conversation with Peter P. Pence (1995, fiction), The Quiet Kentuckians (nonfiction,1996), and Home Sweet Kentucky (1999, nonfiction, co-authored with his wife, Lalie). Rivers of Kentucky, (2001, nonfiction 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, (2002, nonfiction) 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 ever published by them, then in 2004, Plum Lick Publishing produced Jesse Stuart The Heritage (2004, nonfiction), a biography of the internationally famous eastern Kentucky poet, novelist and short-story writer. Kentucky A State of Mind (2005, nonfiction), Dick's tenth work and third co-authored with his wife, Lalie, is a collection of warm, nonfiction esays about Kentucky and Kentuckians. Dick's latest book, A Journal for Lalie Living Through Prostate Cancer is David Dick's most personal book. In 1993, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and over the years has seen his PSA (prostate specific antigen) number rise and fall in response to a long list of medical procedures administered by a host of skilled medical specialists. A Journal for Lalie 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, yet it is one that will bring hope, laughter and inspiration to the thousands who have laughed and loved their way through his previous books. Dick is currently writing Let There Be Light A History of Rural Electrification in Kentucky. By a former marriage, Dick has four children, Samuel Stephens II, Deborah, Catherine and Nell, seven grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. 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 24-year-old daughter, Ravy Bradford Dick, the seventh generation on this land, is a nursing student at Midway College.

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