Frank Herbert (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
Frank Herbert grew up during the Depression era. His family practiced economy but never lacked food or shelter, even when his father was unemployed. In Washington State, where he lived on a farm, he helped catch and smoke salmon, jacklighted deer with his father to supplement their domestic meat supply, and apprenticed as a skin diver with an uncle who was introducing Japanese methods of oyster farming to the area. According to Herbert, this life offered rich experience.
By the age of eight, Herbert knew he wanted to be a writer. By his teens he was known to...
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