Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. October 8, β February 11, was an American science-fiction author, best known for his novel Dune and its five sequels. He also wrote short stories and worked as a newspaper journalist, photographer, book reviewer, ecological consultant, and lecturer.
Dune is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time, [ 3 ] and the series is a classic of the science-fiction genre. The series has been adapted numerous times, including the feature film David Lynch 's Dune , the miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune and Children of Dune , and a motion picture trilogy currently in production, with Denis Villeneuve 's Dune and Dune: Part Two having been released.
But Frank, 18, remained with his aunt and uncle. He lied about his age to get his first newspaper job at the Glendale Star. They had one daughter, Penelope b. February 16, , and divorced in Navy's Seabees for six months as a photographer, but suffered a head injury and was given a medical discharge. After the war, Herbert attended the University of Washington , where he met Beverly Ann Stuart at a creative writing class in 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 titled "Survival of the Cunning", and Stuart had sold a story to Modern Romance magazine.
They married in Seattle in , and had two sons, Brian b. Here they befriended the psychologists Ralph and Irene Slattery. The Slatterys introduced Herbert to the work of several thinkers who would influence his writing, including Freud , Jung , Jaspers and Heidegger ; they also familiarized Herbert with Zen Buddhism.
Herbert never graduated from college. According to his son Brian, he wanted to study only what interested him and so did not complete the required curriculum. He returned to journalism and worked at the Seattle Star and the Oregon Statesman. He was a writer and editor for the San Francisco Examiner 's California Living magazine for a decade.
