Frank Herbert
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...