Dyke Hendrickson

Dyke Hendrickson

Author of Seven Books

Dyke Hendrickson is a career journalist with a love of history. He has written seven books. He started his career at the Biddeford-Saco Journal in Maine, and moved on to the Portland Press Herald. While in Portland, he wrote a long series on the Franco-Americans of Maine, which was honored by the Maine Press Association in the “best feature story” category. It was one of the first books on the subject, and the positive response led to a book, “Quiet Presence: Stories of Franco-Americans in New England” (Gannett Press, Portland, 1980). A portion of “Quiet Presence” is excerpted at the Museum of National Heritage at Ellis Island, N.Y.

Dyke went on to be a writer for the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the Boston Herald. Later, he was a technology columnist for Mass High Tech and the Boston Business Journal. He worked in the communications department of Massachusetts General Hospital. Until 2017, he was the waterfront reporter for The Daily News in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

A resident of seaside Newburyport, the author has written four books relating to the coast. They are as follows: "Plum Island: A Vulnerable Gem," (2022); "Merrimack: The Resilient River," (2021); "New England Coast Guard Stories," (2020), and "Nautical Newburyport," (2017). Dyke is also the author of "Franco-Americans of Maine," 2010; and "Last Night in Hollywood," (2004).

Dyke was a history major at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, and did graduate work in public administration at the University of Maine, Orono. He is a former lecturer in journalism at Northeastern University in Boston.