Did you know that the 1st edition was published by Chiltons?
It was the first book to win a Nebula Award, in 1966, but it was passed over by 20 publishers before Chiltons went to press.
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Frank Herbert, the author of Dune, got his start in writing as a reporter for a newspaper, and he was often teased by his colleagues for his propensity to embellish routine automobile accidents
One of Herbert’s early stories was headlined, “14-year-old Bride Misses Death by Hair’s Breadth!”, chronicled a collision that left a teenage girl with head lacerations. She jumped from her 16-year-old husband’s truck before he came to a stop and was struck by an oncoming car, Herbert reported. Much of the story focused on how her hair became caught under the car’s front wheels.
Herbert left The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa California) in 1954 to briefly work for the San Francisco Examiner. He transitioned from journalist to fiction writer in 1955 when he published his first novel “Dragon of the Sea.”
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