University Press returns with another short and captivating biography of one of history’s most compelling figures, Frank Herbert. Frank Herbert is the venerated and eccentric creator of Dune, the complex and multidimensional literary masterpiece that is now the world’s most influential, well-loved, best-selling science fiction novel of all time.

Born in Tacoma, Washington on October 8, 1920, Franklin Patrick Herbert was a voracious reader of books and newspapers by the age of five, announced his plan to be an author by the age of eight, ran away from home, graduated from high school, become a newspaper journalist, dropped out of college, got married, had kids, was inspired by the Oregon Dunes to write an epic science fiction novel, wrote Dune, sold 20 million copies, forever changed the science fiction genre, inspired Star Wars, and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.

This short book tells the intensely human story of a man who changed the world in a way that no one else could.