Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived
most of his life in California. He briefly attended the University
of California, but dropped out before completing any classes. In
1952, he began writing professionally and proceeded to write
numerous novels and short-story collections. He won the Hugo Award
for the best novel in 1962 for The Man in the High
Castle and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel
of the year in 1974 for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.
Philip K. Dick died on March 2, 1982, in Santa Ana, California, of
heart failure following a stroke.
Lawrence Sutin is the author of Divine Invasions:
A Life of Philip K. Dick; Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister
Crowley; and When to Go into the Water. He also
edited a posthumous series of writings entitled The Shifting
Realities of Philip K. Dick. He attended the University of
Michigan where he completed degrees in psychology and English. He
also attended Harvard University and completed a law
degree. Sutin was a professor in the Creative Writing
Program at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, until
retiring in 2015.
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