Philip K. Dick

Philip K.Dick was an American science fiction author. He was born in Illinois in 1928 and found fame with novels such as 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' and 'The Man in the High Castle'. Of Irish and German ancestry, Dick had blue eyes and dark hair. He died of complications after suffering a stroke, just four months before the release of Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner', an adaptation of his most well known story.