psychokinesis 85, 92
psychomotor seizure 169
Pope John XXIII 40
Powers, Tim 163–170, 174, 177–179, 183–186, 190, 204–208, 265
Pauling, Linus 66
Pike, Christopher 206
Pike, Bishop James A. 132, 134–137, 205
quaternity 66
Rich, Alan 77, 243, 249, 251
Rickman, Gregg 17, 206, 223
Rimov, Leon 228, 237
Rivers, Betty Jo 15, 241, 246–249, 258
Robeson, Paul 47
robots 16, 62, 79, 257
Ross Psychiatric Hospital 89–90
Royal Electric typewriter 37, 105, 234
Rubenstein, Hatte 23–25, 32, 38, 44, 60, 75–77, 81, 84, 86, 89–91, 94–95, 100, 105, 109, 114, 135, 142, 173, 175, 179, 189, 265, 267
Rubenstein, Jayne 23–25, 32, 38, 41, 69, 75, 84, 92, 105, 142–143, 149, 173–174, 188, 194, 209, 265
Rubenstein, Richard 23–28, 30–32, 35–36, 38, 42, 45, 67–68, 86, 126, 240
Rubenstein, Tandy 23, 25, 32, 62, 68, 72, 75, 77, 84, 97–98, 132–134, 142, 172–174, 265
ruins 258
Russell, Henryetta 122, 133
Sandburg, Carl 38
Sanders, Jack 71, 252
Santa Venetia, CA 131, 134–153, 273
Sausalito 35, 43, 142, 250
Sauter, Doris 171, 181–187, 190, 203–205, 208–209
schizophrenia 16, 63, 70, 91, 93, 233, 259
Schopenhauer, Arthur 39
Schubert, Franz 40, 47
Science Fiction Studies 177
sculpture 27, 48, 50, 53, 61, 96, 98, 113–114, 149
“Sean” 145, 147, 151
sheep 21, 24, 27–28, 51, 54, 70, 76–77, 114, 140
“Sheila” 15, 141, 143–151, 193
Sherwood, Don 254
Simpson, Joan 15, 183, 186–191, 193, 196–197, 265
Smith, Ginger 168
Spicer, Jack 239–240
spinet piano 16, 61, 138
St. Columba’s Church (Inverness, CA) 97–99, 132, 173, 204, 206, 209
Stein, Joel 164–165, 168–169
Stevens, Chris 42
Stevens, James 37
Stevens, Joan 42, 78
Stevens, Pete 63, 78, 85, 95, 138
Storer, Inez 69, 73, 112, 126, 269
Stratton, George 84
Stratton, Jan 84
stroke 80, 208
Subud 63, 70, 87
suicide 96, 113, 119, 122, 134–136, 155, 159–160, 178–179, 185, 196–197, 268
Surrealism 49
Synanon 125, 155, 159
synchronicity 66
tachycardia 39, 204, 254
Tao Te Ching 67
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich 47, 236
telepathy 152, 197
teratomas 79, 85
theology 17, 53, 95, 97, 99, 103, 132, 174, 182, 203
Tibetan Book of the Dead 66
Teller, Edward 40, 84
Temko, Allan 40, 256
Thespian, Homer 233
Thompson, Bill 43
“Tom Swifties” 67
Torrence, Ray 187
Tumpey 39, 96
Treasury of Jewish Folklore 38
twins 29, 47, 79, 85, 96, 172, 173, 194, 209, 213–214, 216–217, 224, 247, 258
University of British Columbia, Vancouver 155
University of California, Berkeley 27, 40, 74, 76, 80, 219, 224–225, 227, 232–233
University of California, Davis 246
University of California, Fullerton see Fullerton, CA and McNelly, Willis
University of California, Santa Cruz 135
University Radio 31, 76, 85, 116, 231–233, 239, 241–247, 251, 255–256
Vancouver, B. C. 152, 155–156, 160, 162, 167, 169, 172
Vancouver Science Fiction Convention 152, 155
vaulting 157, 173, 185, 188–189, 198
V-Con see Vancouver Science Fiction Convention
vertigo 84, 231, 236
Wagner, Richard 32, 39, 246, 255–256
Wallace, Henry 241
Walsh, Michael 156–159
Walsh, Susan 156–159
Washington, D. C. 31, 80, 163, 215, 224
Watts, Alan 40
Wells, H. G. 228
West, Nathanael 37
Westercon 168
Western Hospital 208
Williams, Paul 15, 207, 209
Wilson, Mary 15, 164, 168
Wolfson, Margaret 57, 115, 235, 249
Wolfson, William 63, 115, 120, 126, 150–151, 235, 249
Works
A Maze of Death 116
A Scanner Darkly 83, 141, 143–145, 165, 189, 269
A Time for George Stavros 59
Blade Runner 136, 205–206, 269
Clans of the Alphane Moon 104, 264
Confessions of a Crap Artist 12, 23, 28, 31, 33, 35, 40, 46, 50–51, 53–56, 58, 179, 186, 216, 264–265, 271
Cosmic Puppets, The 26, 38
Crack in Space, The 98, 104, 264
Counter-Clock World 111, 129, 131, 135
Dark-Haired Girl, The 168
Deus Irae 125
Divine Invasion, The 103, 183
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 136, 205, 208, 264
Dr. Bloodmoney 43, 65, 79, 84–85, 233, 245, 264, 271
Exegesis 17, 174, 183, 185, 187
Eye in the Sky 26, 49
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said 137, 144, 151
“Foster, You’re Dead” 258–259
Galactic Pot-Healer 67, 142
Game Players of Titan, The 71–72, 264
Ganymede Takeover 93
“Human Is” 38, 259
Humpty Dumpty in Oakland 59
“King of the Elves” 251, 257
Man in the High Castle, The 12–13, 68–72, 85, 96, 111, 115, 123, 172, 187, 264, 271
Man Who Japed, The 26
Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike, The 12, 42–43, 57, 104, 264
Martian Time-Slip 12, 57, 73, 79–80, 85, 136, 187, 246, 264, 271
Now Wait for Last Year 12, 95, 102, 264
Owl in Daylight, The 164
Penultimate Truth, The 104, 264
“Roog” 200, 251
Simulacra, The 57, 92, 264
Solar Lottery 26, 256–257
Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The 12–13, 53, 93, 98, 100, 103–104, 158, 223, 264, 271
Time Out of Joint 12, 26, 39, 48, 264
Transmigration of Timothy Archer, The 134, 205–206, 232–233, 250
Ubik 135, 174, 186, 200, 264, 269
Unteleported Man, The 104
VALIS 104, 174, 178, 181–184, 196, 202
Valisystem A 174, 184
We Can Build You 16, 57, 61, 63, 264
“What the Dead Men Say” 104, 116
World Jones Made, The 26, 257–258
Zap Gun, The 43, 95, 264
Wright, Jack 98
Wright, Patty 98
X-Kalay 155, 159–166, 169
About the Author
Anne, Philip K. Dick’s third wife, lived with him in Point Reyes Station during a period in his writing life when he wrote the novels that made him world-famous: Confessions of a Crap Artist, Martian Time-Slip, Dr. Bloodmoney, and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. He accurately chronicled the beginnings of Anne’s jewelry business in his most famous novel, The Man in the High Castle.
Anne was born in West Englewood, New Jersey, in 1927. After moving to St. Louis, she attended the Principia secondary school and graduated from Washington University in 1947. After the death of her first husband, poet Richard Rubenstein, she studied metal sculpture with Harry Crotty at College of Marin and later based her jewelry designs on the welded sculpture techniques she had learned there. Her bronze and silver jewelry has been sold in museum stores and galleries throughout the United States and abroad. Retired from the jewelry business after forty-seven years, she continues to write novels and poetry. She stil
l lives in the same house where she lived with Philip K. Dick and raised her four daughters.
What Others Say About “The Search for Philip K. Dick”
“Dear Anne, I just finished reading your biography of Phil, and I must say I am impressed. Besides being a remarkably accurate and lifelike picture of the man, it is also a rattling good tale, like a real-life detective story….”
—Ray Nelson
“Anne’s detailed account of her years with Philip K. Dick is a must-read for anyone discovering the autobiographical elements in his writing. No other biography gives the reader as strong a sense of how he crafted his fiction, where he got his characters, and what made him tick. Parts of Anne’s memoir are instantly recognizable to PKD’s readers as they describe the inspiration for many of his most bizarre fictional scenes.”
—David Gill, San Francisco State University; The Total Dick-Head blog
“The secret of Phil Dick’s greatness, as with so many other great men, is his… third wife, Anne. You can see her influence in the development of his novels, their increasing awareness of the human/family/sexual element. Most SF writers simply didn’t pay attention to such things, which are the entire concern of mainstream fiction. Dick was almost alone among the SF writers of his day in trying to write mainstream novels himself. And what is their constant theme? His battles with, and bafflement by, and love of Anne, the Other who never left his thoughts….”
—Thomas M. Disch, author of Camp Concentration
“[Search for Philip K. Dick] shows that if we choose to, we can see through the flaws, and find the shining divinity that is there. Even in his worst times in Santa Venetia, he was still trying to help people.”
—Laurene Jensen
“I found the manuscript utterly engrossing on two levels: first, as a sympathetic yet clear-eyed study in the round of an extraordinary personality, and second, as a source of innumerable clues about PKD’s work. I consider it prime source material for anyone interesting in PKD the man or the writings of PKD. I not only understand him better now, but have fresh insights into several of the novels and short stories….”
—Meritt Abrash, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
“… an amazingly thorough job, even though … dealing at times with people who could have been hostile. And then [Anne Dick] wrote the whole complicated story in clear, fast-moving, and entertaining prose.”
—Floyd M. Shumway, Yale University
“In all the critical literature-review-type books, yours comes as a breath of fresh air.”
—Perry Kinman “Razzelweave,” PKD zine, Japan
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