In a 1950's mining town called Coalwood, Homer Hickam is a kid with only one future in sight, to work in the local coal mine like his father. However in October 1957, everything changes when the ...

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In his debut, Hickam, a retired NASA engineer, walks that line From the informed imagination of the author of Rocket Boys: A Memoir (finalist for an NBCC Award; made into the movie October Sky ...

Homer Hickam, the rocket scientist from Coalwood, West Virginia, whose life is portrayed in the 1999 film “October Sky,” based on Hickam’s memoir of the same name. At the center of Coalwood ...

Homer Hickam, NYT bestselling and award-winning ... and besides Rocket Boys (adapted in the major motion picture “October Sky” starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Hickam), his work includes Carrying ...

Produced by Allen Media Strategies Burke Allen and co-hosted by longtime AMS clients Homer Hickam and Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. along with actor an ...