The Great Dune Trilogy

Frank Herbert (1920-86) was born in Tacoma, Washington and worked as a reporter and later editor of a number of West Coast newspapers before becoming a full-time writer. His first sf story was published in 1952 but he achieved fame more than ten years later with the publication in Analog of -Dune World- and -The Prophet of Dune-, amalgamated into the Hugo and Nebula-winning novel DUNE in 1965.