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Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. He is best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. The Dune saga, set in the distant future and taking place over millennia, dealt with themes such as human survival and evolution, ecology, and the intersection of religion, politics, and power, and is widely considered to be among the classics in the field of science fiction.
<p>Frank Herbert was born October 8, 1920 in Tacoma, Washington, to Frank Patrick Herbert Sr. and Eileen McCarthy Herbert. He knew from an early age that he wanted to be a writer. He graduated high school in 1938, and in 1939 he lied about his age in order to get his first newspaper job on the Glendale Star.
<p>There was a temporary hiatus to his writing career as he served in the U.S. Navy's Seabees for six months as a photographer during World War II, until he was given a medical discharge. He...
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