Penguin Books Ltd., 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada All rights reserved.:ģ75 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune followed, completing the saga that the Chicago Tribune would call “one of the monuments of modern science fiction.” Herbert was also the author of some twenty other books, including The White Plague, The Dosadi Experiment, and Destination: Void. But his emergence as a writer of major stature did not occur until 1965, with the publication of Dune. In 1952, Herbert began publishing science fiction with “Looking for Something?” in Startling Stories. He worked a wide variety of jobs-including TV cameraman, radio commentator, oyster diver, jungle survival instructor, lay analyst, creative writing teacher, reporter and editor of several West Coast newspapers-before becoming a full-time writer. He was born in Tacoma, Washington, and educated at the University of Washington, Seattle. Frank Herbert was the bestselling author of the Dune saga.
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