Frank Herbert was an American science fiction novelist, short-story writer, lecturer, and journalist. He is best known for the Dune saga, a series of six novels set in the distant future and taking place over millennia. Dune (1965), the first novel in the saga, is one of the best-selling science fiction novels of all time.
Born in Tacoma, Washington in 1920, Herbert had a brilliant but troubled upbringing, including running away from home, lying about his age to write for a newspaper, and never officially graduating from university because he refused to study things that didn’t interest him. He had three marriages and three children, including the author Brian Herbert. He met his second...
