Luke Rhinehart
Luke Rhinehart, the pen name of George Cockcroft, was an American author and psychologist.
Born to an engineer and civil servant, he earned degrees from Cornell and Columbia.
Rhinehart taught university courses on Zen and Western literature, which inspired his most famous work, The Dice Man.
Published in 1971, it explored the concept of living by dice rolls.
Rhinehart experimented with this lifestyle and established a dice center in New York.
He later traveled extensively, including a world voyage on a trimaran ketch.
Rhinehart lived in various locations, including a former Sufi retreat in New York.
He passed away in 2020 at the age of 87.
