Biography

Frank Patrick Herbert
Born in Tacoma, Washington, Frank Herbert is one of the most read writers of all time. From his humble beginnings as a newspaper editor, he broke into the science-fiction world with the publication of "Dune World", a short story that would later become the novel Dune. His best known novel went on to win the Nebula and Hugo Awards and became science-fiction history. Frank Herbert continued to write and produced five sequels to Dune and a multitude of other novels. The catalyst of all these books, Dune, was made into a high budget movie in 1984, plagued with set backs and ultimately a box office failure. Frank Herbert dealt with many futuristic subjects in his novels yet all are fightingly related to ourselves. Sadly, Frank Herbert died in 1986 leaving co-writer Bill Ransom to finish their last book together and leaving many other stories untold.