The famous American writer Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928. Most of his life was spent in California, where he studied for a while at the university, and later read the lectures. In addition to literary pursuits, Philip K. Dick was a serious hobby - music, and he even led a program of classical music on the radio. Dick was not only a wonderful writer of science fiction, award-winning author of the novel 31, but also a man with an active social position; no secret of his anti-fascist views, engaged in rehabilitation of drug addicts. He died in 1982.