Luke Rhinehart Luke Rhinehart Luke Rhinehart (born George Powers Cockcroft November 15, 1932) is an American novelist and screenwriter, author of eleven books. He is best known for his 1971 novel "The Dice Man," the story of a psychiatrist who experiments with the multiple parts of his personality by making life decisions based on the roll of a die. "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". In 2013,
Alan Rinehart Alan Rinehart Alan Gillespie Rinehart (1900–1982) was a writer, film producer, and playwright. Rinehart was a son of mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart and a brother of book publishers Stanley Rinehart, Jr. and Frederick Roberts Rinehart. Rinehart was born in Allegheny, PA (which has since merged with Pittsburgh, PA) in 1900. He graduated from the Morristown School in Morristown, NJ (now Morristown-Beard School) in 1919. During his time at the school, Rinehart wrote stories and poetry for "The Morristonian", the student newspaper. After studying at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Rinehart received his bachelor's degree from the School of Mining