The University of South Alabama chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi will host a lecture by award-winning author Christopher Dickey at 7 p.m., Monday, March 6, in the John W. Laidlaw Performing Arts Center Recital Hall. Dickey will speak on “Deep Deliverance: American Savagery and Survival.”

A successful novelist and journalist, Dickey is currently the Paris bureau chief and Middle East regional editor for Newsweek Magazine. His lecture at USA will examine the archetypal choice faced by the characters in the best-selling novel “Deliverance” and compare them to the choices made by the U.S. government in the Global War on Terror.

Dickey is the author of five books, including “Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son,” which recounts his relationship with his father, James Dickey, famed poet and author of “Deliverance.” His other books include “With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua,” “Expats: Travels from Tripoli to Tehran,” “Innocent Blood: A Novel,” and his most recent novel, “The Sleeper,” which The New York Times calls “a first-rate thriller.”

Dickey has also written for Foreign Affairs, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Wired, Rolling Stone, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review,