Anarchic, hip, subversive and comic..." The Times, London "Zany, bizarre, inventive... often touching." - Bestsellers "One of my favorite reads of the year...Pure entertainment" Belfast Telegraph" "One of the great comic novels of the decade, (WHIM) is pure delight, a book with a smile built into just about every line." -Peter Tennant in The Third Alternative, Issue 27."
George Cockcroft (AKA Luke Rhinehart) was born in the United States, son of an engineer and a civil servant. He received a BA from Cornell University and an MA from Columbia University. Subsequently he received a PhD in psychology, also from Columbia. He married his wife, Ann, on June 30, 1956. He has three children.