Philip K Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. He attended college for a year at Berkeley. Apart from writing, his main interest was music. He won the Hugo Award for his classic novel of alternative history, The Man in the High Castle (1962). He was married five times and had three children. He died in March 1982.
`One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of
fiction, Philip K Dick made most of the European avant-garde seem
navel-gazers in a cul-de-sac’
Sunday Times `An elusive and incomparable artist’
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