- George Cockcroft
George Cockcroft (born
November 15 ,1932 ), frequently misspelt "Cockroft", is an author who writes under the pen nameLuke Rhinehart (see that article for information about his books).Biography
George Cockcroft was born in the
United States , son of anengineer and acivil servant . He got his BA atCornell University , and his MA atColumbia University . Subsequently he got a PhD inpsychology , also at Columbia. He married his wife, Ann onJune 30 ,1956 . He currently has three children. At some point in his life he converted toZen Buddhism.After obtaining his PhD he went into teaching. During his years as a university teacher he taught, amongst other things, courses in
Zen and Western literature. He first floated the idea of living by thedice in a lecture: the reaction was equal parts intrigue and disgust, and it was at this point he realised it could become a novel. Cockcroft started experimenting with dice a long time before writing "The Dice Man ", but this made progress on the novel rather slow. When he actually finished it he was 37, and lived inMajorca teaching English to hippies.He met a publisher, probably in Deya, and thereby published the novel "The Dice Man". In 1970 he became a full-time writer and "leader of the dice cult". In 1971 he was engaged in creating a dice centre in New York. In 1975 he was involved in a round-the-world voyage in a large trimaran ketch.
Later on he spent some time in a sailboat in the
Mediterranean , and from there moved to a formerSufi retreat on the edge of a lake. His last known mailing address was Luke Hill inCanaan, New York . Email: [mailto:lukec@taconic.net] .External links
* [http://www.lukerhinehart.net Luke Rhinehart: Official home page]
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