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Biographie de Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick was born in the USA in 1928. His twin sister Jane died in infancy. He started his writing career publishing short stories in magazines. The first of these was "Beyond Lies the Wub" in 1952. While publishing SF prolifically during the fifties, Dick also wrote a series of mainstream novels, only one of which, Confessions of a Crap Artist, achieved publication during his lifetime. These included titles such as May and the Giant and In Milton Lumky Territory.
During the 1960s Dick produced an extraordinary succession of novels, including The Man in the High Castle, which won a Hugo award, Martian Time-Slip, Dr Bloodmoney, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? and Ubik. In the 1970s, Dick started to concern himself more directly with metaphysical and theological issues, experiencing a moment of revelation - or breakdown - in March 1974.
which became the basis for much of his subsequent writing, in particular Valis, as he strove to make sense of what had happened. He died in 1982, a few weeks before the film Blade Runner opened and introduced his vision to a wider audience.