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,
Farrar & Rinehart we feel that … there is a need for literature that is written in quiet places and that is brought to the public with dignity." During the early summer of 1929, Farrar and Rinehart designed and distributed its first promotional piece, the first cannon in what they hoped to be a successful advertising campaign for the book "Speculation: The Wall Street Gamebook". Published in October, the month of the stock-market crash, it was a complete failure. In 1931, Farrar & Rinehart acquired the Cosmopolitan Book Corporation from Hearst. Farrar & Rinehart became one of the most successful publishing houses of