Frank Herbert, whose work has been compared to such widely varied writers as Aldous Huxley and Edgar Rice Burroughs, has been a newspaperman on the West Coast for many years. Both a writer and a professional photographer, he is also a student of subjects ranging from oriental religions to jungle botany and undersea geology. His rich background of experience includes work as a TV cameraman, radio news commentator, oyster diver, jungle survival instructor, lay analyst, and teacher of creative writing.