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Luke Rhinehart (born George Cockcroft November 15, 1932) is the American writer of nine novels, most notably ''The Dice Man,'' a 1971 novel about a psychotherapist who casts dice in place of making decisions. ''The Dice Man'' was critically and commercially well received. In 1995, the BBC called it "one of the fifty most influential books of the last half of the twentieth century," and in 1999 ''Loaded'' magazine named it "Novel of the Century".〔http://www.funtrivia.com/en/subtopics/Loaded-Magazine---The-Early-Years-239311.html〕〔http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/cr-100345/luke-rhinehart〕 In 2013, the ''Telegraph'' listed it as one of the 50 great cult books of the last hundred years.〔http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/10432344/50-best-cult-books.html〕 Although first published in 1971, the book has enjoyed a 21st-century renaissance, being published or republished in more than 60 countries and translated into 26 languages.〔http://permutedpress.com/authors/luke-rhinehart〕 His books ''The Search for the Dice Man'', ''Whim'' and ''The Book of the Die'' continue the comic and philosophical ideas first explored in ''The Dice Man''. ==Biography== Rhinehart was born George Cockcroft in Albany, New York, son of an engineer and a civil servant. He received a BA from Cornell University in 1954 and an MA from Columbia University in 1956. In 1964 he received a PhD in American literature, also from Columbia. He 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. Rhinehart's brother James Cockcroft is the author of more than 20 books, mostly on Latin American history and society. 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. He first floated the idea of living by the dice in a lecture: the reaction was equal parts intrigue and disgust, and it was at this point he realized it could become a novel. Rhinehart started experimenting with dice a long time before writing ''The Dice Man''. In 1971, a London-based startup publisher, Talmy Franklin, discovered the draft of the first third of the draft of ''The Dice Man'' when he met Luke in Mallorca and a year later published the book.〔http://www.lukerhinehart.com/writing-dice-man/〕 The publisher sold film rights to the book even before publication and with this money and success Luke became a full-time writer. Since then, he and his family lived for three years on Mallorca (where he finished writing ''The Dice Man'',〔http://www.lukerhinehart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/dice-man-deia-chance.pdf〕 lived aboard a big trimaran that became the boat of his novel ''Long Voyage Back'', lived for a year (1975) in a sufi commune, and for the last 40 years in a large old farmhouse and former religious retreat〔http://www.theguardian.com/media/1999/jun/14/9〕 in the foothills of the Berkshires in upstate New York. Here he continues to write novels but rarely gives interviews, a "reclusive" stance which has added a sense of mystery to his identity as the "father of dicing".〔http://www.theguardian.com/media/1999/jun/14/9〕 On 1 August 2012, at the age of 80, Rhinehart arranged for his own death to be announced. It was later revealed as a prank. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Luke Rhinehart」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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