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,
William Henry Rinehart the site of what is now The Peabody Institute in Baltimore, and studied sculpture at what is now called the Maryland Institute College of Art. In 1855 Rinehart went to Italy to continue his studies. While there he executed two bas-reliefs in marble, "Morning" and "Evening". On his return, two years later, he opened a studio in Baltimore, where he executed numerous busts, a fountain-figure for the main U.S. Post Office in Washington, DC; and two bronze figures, "Backwoodsman" and "Indian", flanking the clock in the House of Representatives Chamber of the U.S. Capitol. In 1858 he settled in Rome