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Luke Rhinehart (George Cockcroft) was born on 15 November, 1932 in Albany, New York, U.S., is an American writer (1932–2020). Discover Luke Rhinehart's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

Popular As George Cockcroft
Occupation Writer
Age 87 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 15 November, 1932
Birthday 15 November
Birthplace Albany, New York, U.S.
Date of death 6 November, 2020
Died Place Canaan, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1932

George Powers Cockcroft (November 15, 1932 – November 6, 2020), widely known by the pen name Luke Rhinehart, was an American novelist, screenwriter, and nonfiction writer.

George Powers Cockcroft was born on November 15, 1932, in Albany, New York, to Donald and Elizabeth Cockcroft, both college graduates, his mother from Wellesley College.

He was raised in Albany, where his father was an electrical engineer, and his ancestry included Vermont political notables.

1950

He attended The Albany Academy, graduating in 1950, and received a BA from Cornell University in 1954 and an MA from Columbia University in 1956.

1956

Cockroft married his wife, Ann, who would later become a writer of two romance novels and a volume of poetry, on June 30, 1956; together they have three children.

His brother, James Cockcroft, is the author of more than 20 books, mostly on Latin American history and society.

1960

The author and his family spent a number of years traveling, sailing, and returning to Mallorca, living in Deià in the late 1960s and early 70s, including time spent on a large catamaran which became the inspiration for the boat in his novel Long Voyage Back.

1964

In 1964 he received a PhD in American literature, also from Columbia.

After obtaining his PhD, he went into teaching.

During his years as a university professor he taught, among other things, courses in Zen and Western literature.

1969

In 1969, while Cockcroft was teaching a study abroad program on the island of Mallorca, an Englishman starting a new publishing house happened to stop at a cafe in the same village, Deià, and was given a partial manuscript of The Dice Man to read by Cockcroft.

Cockcroft was subsequently offered an advance payment for publication.

Shortly afterwards, Cockcroft was encouraged by his course Director to take an early sabbatical from his teaching duties.

He remained in Mallorca to complete the novel, after which the publisher sold the American rights to the novel for a large sum, and within a year the film rights, allowing Cockcroft to retire from teaching and become a full time novelist.

1970

In the mid 1970s they returned to the United States and spent 1975 in a sufi commune, before moving to a large old farmhouse and former religious retreat in the foothills of the Berkshires in upstate New York.

"I am old now. Illusions are losing their grip. They are dropping off me like leaves from an autumn tree. How nice."

1971

He is best known for his 1971 novel The Dice Man, the story of a psychiatrist who experiments with making life decisions based on the roll of a dice.

The Dice Man was critically well received and a commercial success.

It quickly became and remains a cult classic.

Rhinehart's famous novel The Dice Man was published in 1971 and tells the story of a psychiatrist who makes daily decisions based on the casting of dice.

The cover bore the confident tagline, "Few novels can change your life. This one will"; in the United States this was altered to read, "This book will change your life".

Cockcroft has described the origin of the idea for this work variously, and at the time of the publication of this work, "it was not clear whether the book was fiction or autobiography", because its protagonist and author were eponymous.

Curiosity over its authorship have persisted since its publication.

1986

It was followed by two spiritual sequels in Adventures of Wim (1986) and The Search for the Dice Man (1993) as well as a companion volume called The Book of the Die (2000).

Rhinehart wrote several other novels between 1986 and 2016 though none achieved the success of The Dice Man.

1995

In 1995, the BBC called it "one of the fifty most influential books of the last half of the twentieth century," and in 1999, after one of their reporters experimented, controversially, with dicing, Loaded magazine named it "Novel of the Century".

2012

On 1 August 2012, the "death" of Rhinehart at the age of 79 was announced by email to 25 friends, beginning with the words "It is our pleasure to inform you that Luke Rhinehart is dead"; it was later revealed the "Death Letter" was instigated as a playful hoax by Cockcroft.

Reactions ranged from sorrow to gratitude and amusement.

2013

In 2013, Alex Clark of the Telegraph chose it as one of the fifty greatest cult books of the last hundred years.

A number of works by Luke Rhinehart have a similar style and themes to The Dice Man, alternating between first- and third-person voices with selections from fictional documents.

In one case, he even quotes from a future book that he did not actually write until more than two decades later.

The voices having different characteristics, the novel's mood changes accordingly.

Presenting these multiple fragments from multiple viewpoints together results in a "cubist" narrative structure.

2017

Writing in 2017 for The Guardian, Tanya Gold noted that "over the course of 45 years" it was still in print, had become famous, had devoted fans, and had "sold more than 2m copies in multiple languages" (e.g., as many as 27 languages and 60 countries have been claimed ).

2018

In 2018, Rhinehart expressed a wish to be cremated after his death if he could not be naturally buried legally in the one-acre lake upon his property.

2019

Emmanuel Carrère, writing for The Guardian, presented a long-form expose on Cockcroft and the relationship between author and legend in 2019, and in following others, established the author Cockcroft as a life-long English professor living "in an old farmhouse with a yard that slopes down to a duck pond", a husband of fifty-years, father of three, and a caregiver to a special needs child.

The Dice Man was critically well received.

It quickly became, and remains thought of as a cult classic.

It initially sold poorly in the United States, but well in Europe, particularly England, Sweden, Denmark, and Spain.

2020

George Cockroft died, aged 87, on 6 November 2020.