Jack M. Bickham (edit name/settings)

A prolific American author who also wrote under the pseudonym John Miles; and Arthur Williams. Two of his novels The Apple Dumpling Gang; and Baker's Hawk were made into films. Bickham was a professor at the University of Oklahoma's H.H. Herbert School of Journalism. Bickham received the rank of David Ross Boyd Professor, the highest honor the University can bestow for teaching excellence. He was also the 1998 winner of the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award and a member of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame. He died at Norman Regional Hospital following a lengthy battle with lymphoma.