


Here they befriended the psychologists Ralph and Irene Slattery. In 1949 Herbert and his wife moved to California to work on the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. June 15, 1993, San Rafael, California, a professional photographer and gay rights activist ).

June 29, 1947, Seattle, Washington) and Bruce Calvin Herbert (b. They married in Seattle, Washington on Jand had two sons, Brian Patrick Herbert (b. They were the only students who had sold any work for publication Herbert had sold two pulp adventure stories to magazines, the first to Esquire in 1945, and Stuart had sold a story to Modern Romance magazine. February 16, 1942), but divorced in 1945.Īfter the war Herbert attended the University of Washington, where he met Beverly Ann Stuart at a creative writing class in 1946. He married Flora Parkinson in San Pedro, California in 1940. Navy's Seabees for six months as a photographer during World War II, then he was given a medical discharge. Herbert then returned to Salem in 1940 where he worked for the Oregon Statesman newspaper (now Statesman Journal) in a variety of positions, including photographer. In 1939 he lied about his age to get his first newspaper job at the Glendale Star. He enrolled in high school at Salem High School (now North Salem High School), where he graduated the next year. Because of a poor home environment, he ran away from home in 1938 to live with an aunt and uncle in Salem, Oregon.

Dune itself is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time and the series is widely considered to be among the classics of the genre. The Dune saga, set in the distant future and taking place over millennia, deals with complex themes such as human survival and evolution, ecology, and the intersection of religion, politics, and power. Though he became famous for science fiction, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant and lecturer. (Octo– February 11, 1986) was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. Herbert's novella " The Priests of Psi" was the cover story for the February 1960 issue of Fantasticįrank Patrick Herbert, Jr.
