West Coast, who had taken a serious interest in mind-expanding drugs (1894-1963), Watts was one of those writers and artists living in the

Used to invite Herbert over for dinner and conversation. In the 1960s, he befriended the Zen-master Alan Watts (1915-1973), who While working for the San Francisco Examiner His financial situation was not good, but in the mid-1950s, following the publication of his first novel, he was able to pay old debts, including some of the child-support payments owed to his ex-wife, Flora.Įditor on a number of West Coast newspapers, and in addition, he wrote speeches for University of Washington, Seattle, where Herbert studied in 1946-47. By late 1947 Herbert was employed as aįeature writer for the Tacoma Times. She was a fellow student at the same creative writing class at the Theyĭivorced officially in 1945 next year he married Beverly Ann Stuart. Teenager at that time, whom he had met while working in Salem. In 1941 Herbert married Flora Parkinson, still a He then worked for two years as aĬopy editor for the Oregon Journal in Portland, Oregon. Navy asĪ Photographer Second Class V-6 in the Naval Reserve. Graduated from Salem High School in 1939 and began hisĬareer as a journalist. Later in life he fictionalized this inexplicableĮvent in the story 'Encounter in a Lonely Place' (1973). When he was about 16 years old, he correctly identified an entire deck In 1928 the family moved to Burley to a small farm.Ĭrucial experience for the development of Herbert's view on humanĬonsciousness was his experiment with ESP (extrasensory perception). Later he worked as anĮlectrical equipment salesman, automobile salesman, motorcycle Line between Tacoma and Aberdeen to the south. Time his father, Frank Herbert, known as 'F.H.', operated an auto-bus This was the true wasteland that had never been fertile and never wouldįrank Herbert, Jr., was born in Tacoma, Washington. Stranger might think nothing could live or grow in the open here, that Mind of the newcomer usually that of overpowering barren land. The fictional drug, the spice mélange of Arrakis, to oil. Read as an allegory about the oil politics of the Middle East, equating Many critics have noted that Dune could be Oftenįrank Herbert's stories dealt with great cycles of development, environmentalĪs well as cultural. Herbert's bestseller was followed by five sequels. Won the first Nebula for Best Novel, shared the Hugo, and gained a cult (1965), set in Arrakis, a world of giant sandworms. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZĪmerican science-fiction writer, who became

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