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Name: Frank Herbert
Birth Date: 8 October 1920
Death Date: - 11 February 1986

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Biography of Frank Herbert
6,495 words, approx. 22 pages
Born in Tacoma, Washington, Frank Patrick Herbert is best known as the author of the Dune series. He attended the University of Washington in Seattle (1946-1947), where he later lectured (1970-1972), and worked for many years as a journalist for West...
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Biography of Frank Herbert
5,364 words, approx. 18 pages
Paul Atreides, the young renegade Duke, and his mother, Jessica, were fleeing across the desert when they got their first good look at a maker. "Where the dunes began ... a silver-gray curve broached from the desert, sending rivers of sand and dust...
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Biography of Frank (Patrick) Herbert
3,818 words, approx. 13 pages
Born in Tacoma, Washington, Frank Herbert is best known as the author of the Dune series. He worked for many years as a journalist for West Coast newspapers from San Francisco to Seattle and at a wide range of other jobs, of which his experiences in...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Herbert, Frank (1920-1986) Summary
1,455 words, approx. 5 pages
Science fiction writer Frank Herbert is ranked among such well-respected authors of imaginary worlds as J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Isaac Asimov. Though he wrote more than twenty novels and several short stories, his fame is linked to his...
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Frank Herbert Information
4,848 words, approx. 16 pages
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 <i>Dune</i> and its five sequels. The <a href="/Dune_universe"...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by R. Z. Sheppard
382 words, approx. 1 pages
[Professional] science-fiction writers have rarely been encouraged to be good stylists…. This is partly because SF publishing and marketing methods make little distinction between the kind of star-schlock in which intergalactic cops battle hypothyroid blobs, and a well-wrought literary work in which far-reaching concepts and social problems are dramatized with intelligence, wit and verbal skill…. More important, critics and reviewers who confer literary status rarely know much about science or...


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