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,
Frederick Roberts Rinehart as a book salesman for the company. In 1929, Rinehart co-founded the publishing house Farrar & Rinehart with Stanley Rinehart and John C. Farrar. Rinehart then served as a vice president. In just a few weeks, Rinehart and his associates began announcing a slate of upcoming publications: Under the leadership of Rinehart and his colleagues, Farrar & Rinehart achieved notoriety for publishing the works of Hervey Allen, Katherine Brush, and Mary Roberts Rinehart. The company also achieved recognition as one of the first publishers of dollar fiction. After Farrah & Rinehart acquired the Cosmopolitan Book Corporation from William Randolph Hearst