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Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. He is best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. The Dune saga, set in the distant future and taking place over millennia, deals with themes such as human survival and evolution, ecology, and the intersection of religion, politics and power. Dune itself is the "bestselling science fiction novel of all time," and the series is widely considered to be among the classics in the genre. Frank Herbert was born October 8, 1920 in Tacoma, Washington to Frank Patrick Herbert Sr. and Eileen McCarthy Herbert | Missing Link Herbert Frank Published 1959 Categorie s Fiction Science Fiction Short Stories Source http 1 About Herbert Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. October 8 1920 - February 11 1986 was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. He is best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. The Dune saga set in the distant future and taking place over millennia deals with themes such as human survival and evolution ecology and the intersection of religion politics and power. Dune itself is the bestselling science fiction novel of all time and the series is widely considered to be among the classics in the genre. Frank Herbert was born October 8 1920 in Tacoma Washington to Frank Patrick Herbert Sr. and Eileen McCarthy Herbert. He graduated high school in 1938 and in 1939 he lied about his age in order to get his first newspaper job at the Glendale Star. There was a temporary hiatus in his career as he served in the . Navy s Seabees for six months as a photographer during World War II until he was given a medical discharge. He married Flora Parkinson in San Pedro California in 1941. They had a daughter Penny b. February 16 1942 but divorced in 1945. After the war he attended the University of Washington where he met Beverly Ann Stuart at a creative writing class in 1946. They were the only students in the class who had sold any work for publication - Herbert had sold two pulp adventure stories to magazines- the first to Esquire in 1945 and Stuart had sold a story to Modern Romance magazine. They married in Seattle Washington on June 20 1946. They had two sons Brian Patrick Herbert b. June 29 1947 Seattle Washington a best-selling novelist Bruce Calvin Herbert b. June 26 1951 Santa Rosa California a gay rights activist who died from AIDS in 1993 In 1947 Frank Herbert sold his first science fiction story Looking for Something to Startling Stories. Frank Herbert did not graduate from college according to his son .