Philip K. Dick
Novelist, Author
1928 – 1982
Who was Philip K. Dick?
Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely accepted as being in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states. In his later works Dick's thematic focus strongly reflected his personal interest in metaphysics and theology. He often drew upon his own life experiences in addressing the nature of drug abuse, paranoia, schizophrenia, and transcendental experiences in novels such as A Scanner Darkly and VALIS.
The novel The Man in the High Castle bridged the genres of alternate history and science fiction, earning Dick a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1963. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, a novel about a celebrity who awakens in a parallel universe where he is unknown, won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel in 1975. "I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards," Dick wrote of these stories. "In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real."
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- Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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- Born
- Dec 16, 1928
Chicago - Also known as
- Philip Kindred Dick
- Philip K. (Philip Kindred) Dick
- Jack Dowland
- Richard Phillips
- Phillip K. Dick
- Philip Dick
- PKD
- Horselover Fat
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Kleo Apostolides
(1950/06/14 - 1959) - Leslie Busby
(1973/04/18 - 1977) - Nancy Hackett
(1966/07/06 - 1972) - Jeanette Marlin
(1948/05 - 1948/11) - Anne Williams Rubinstein
(1959/04/01 - 1965/10)
- Kleo Apostolides
- Children
- Religion
- Episcopal Church
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley
- Died
- Mar 2, 1982
Santa Ana
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on July 23, 2013
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