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,
Patricia Rinehart Patricia Rinehart Patricia Rinehart (1930–1996) was an American poet and playwright. Her father was the writer and producer Alan Rinehart, son of the mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart. Her mother was Gratia Buell Houghton Rinehart, daughter of Arthur Amory Houghton, co-owner of the Corning Glass Company, and niece of businessman, politician and diplomat Alanson B. Houghton. In 1948 Rinehart graduated from the Graham-Eckes School, Palm Beach, Florida, and in December of that year she made her debut at the New York home of her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Amory Houghton, Jr. In 1949 she married Dr. Robert