entry into World War II, he served in the Navy's Seabees for six months as a photographer, but suffered an accidental head injury and was given a medical discharge. Herbert married Flora Lillian Parkinson in San Pedro, California, in 1941. Herbert then returned to Salem in 1940 where he worked for the Oregon Statesman newspaper (now Statesman Journal) in a variety of positions, including photographer. In 1939 he lied about his age to get his first newspaper job at the Glendale Star. He enrolled in high school at Salem High School (now North Salem High School), where he graduated the next year. Because of an impoverished home environment, largely due to the Great Depression, he left home in 1938 to live with an aunt and uncle in Salem, Oregon. He had an early interest in photography, and bought a Kodak box camera at age ten, a new folding camera in his early teens, and a color film camera in the mid-1930s. He was fascinated by books and could read much of the newspaper before the age of five, had an excellent memory, and learned things quickly. His rural upbringing involved spending a lot of his youth on the Olympic and Kitsap Peninsulas. was born on October 8, 1920, in Tacoma, Washington, to Frank Patrick Herbert Sr. Herbert's novella " The Priests of Psi" was the cover story for the February 1960 issue of Fantastic.
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