Philip K. Dick

Philip Kindred Dick, often referred to by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer and novelist. He wrote 44 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. His fiction explored varied philosophical and social questions such as the nature of reality, perception, human nature, and identity, and commonly featured characters struggling against elements such as alternate realities, illusory environments, monopolistic corporations, drug abuse, authoritarian governments, and altered states of consciousness. He is considered one of the most important figures in 20th-century science fiction.... Wikipedia

• Born:  Philip Kindred Dick, December 16, 1928, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
• Age at death:  53 years
• Died:  March 02, 1982, Santa Ana, California, U.S.
• Pen name:  Richard Phillipps, Jack Dowland
• Occupation:  Novelist, short story writer, essayist
• Period:  1951–1982
• Genre:  Science fiction, paranoid fiction, philosophical fiction
• Literary movement:  Postmodernism
• Notable works:  Ubik, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, VALIS trilogy, "Second Variety", We Can Remember It For You Wholesale
• Children:  3, including Isa