Martian Time-Slip | Biography
Philip Kindred Dick and his twin sister, Jane Charlotte, were born six weeks prematurely on December 16, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois, to Joseph Edgar, a fraud investigator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Dorothy Kindred Dick. Jane died several weeks later, and the loss of his twin had a residual impact on Dick’s life and the themes in his writing. The family relocated from Chicago to the San Francisco Bay Area, but Dick’s parents divorced when he was five. He attended high school in Berkeley then briefly attended the University of California at Berkeley. His teen years...
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