{"id":2018,"date":"2014-11-08T06:25:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T12:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2014-11-08T06:25:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T12:25:41","slug":"herbert-frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/herbert-frank\/","title":{"rendered":"Herbert, Frank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Frank Herbert, born on October 8, 1920, in Tacoma, Washington, was a very smart kid. He carried books around in a Scout pack, reading everything he could. He was also a refusenik, having an independent spirit that frequently got him into trouble. He didn’t graduate from college because he wouldn’t take the courses required to complete a major\u2014he wanted to study only what interested him.<\/p>\n

He worked on the manuscript for Dune<\/i> for six years. It was rejected by twenty-three publishers before Analog<\/em> magazine published it in serial form from 1963 to 1965. Sterling Lanier, editor at Chilton Book Company, primarily known for publishing car repair manuals, offered to publish the book for a $7500 advance. Dune<\/em> won both a Nebula Award and a Hugo Award.<\/p>\n

Herbert wrote six novels set in the Dune universe, as well as best-selling science fiction titles such as Hellstrom’s Hive<\/i>, The Dosadi Experiment,<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0The White Plague<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Married three times, Herbert had three children, one of whom, Brian, is continuing to write books about Dune with his co-author, Kevin J. Anderson.<\/p>\n

Frank Herbert died in 1986 after a long battle with cancer.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Steve Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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