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Frank Herbert Born in Tacoma, Washington in 1920 and educated at the University of Washington in Seattle, Frank Herbert enjoyed a varied career before becoming a full-time author which included dabbling in photography, oyster diving, jungle survival instruction, journalism (where he held a senior position on a San Francisco newspaper) and news commentary. Dune Herbert took up science-fiction and began publishing stories in various publications which catered to the genre, beginning with a piece titled "Looking For Something." Over the next ten years he contributed to sci-fi magazines and publications. His first novel, "The Dragon And The Sea," a perceptive tale of nuclear submarines which, like the best sci-fi, predicted several strands of development. It was a short novel, "Dune World," in 1964 which brought him greater attention. To this he added "The Prophet Of Dune" before he amalgamated the two into what we know now as "Dune." In 1965 Herbert won two of science fiction's most prestigious accolades, The Hugo and the first ever Nebula. To date "Dune" has seen a print run of 3,000,000 copies world-wide since its publication. Frank Herbert died in February, 1986 at the age of 65, but that has done nothing to slow the sales of his work.  |