Philip K. Dick : The Author
a sham and lasted only six months. His second
marraige to Kleo Apostolides was more
successful. Although struggling to make a
living his time spent with Kleo was happy and
romantic. Their decision to move to Point Reyes
Station in the late fifties set things in motion
for Dick to begin an affair with their neighbour
Anne. It took a short time for him to divorce
Kleo and leave what had, up until that time,
been a happy marraige. The novel Confessions of
A Crap Artist (1975) takes its cue from these
real life events.
Philip Dick's relationship with Anne was one of
love and hate. Many negative and destructive
female characters found in the works of Philip
K. Dick are based on Anne. These include Fay in
Confessions of A Crap Artist, Pris in We Can
Build You, and Kathy in Now Wait For Last Year
(1966). Philip gradually developed an unhealthy
paranoia about Anne, convincing himself that
Anne had killed her first husband and was
planning the same fate for him. Despite this
paranoia and animosity, Anne helped him begin
one of his most prolific and inspired periods of
writing. Martian Time Slip (1964), The Three 		Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) and the award
winning The Man in the High Castle were all
written during this period. Retreating into a
small cabin (which he rented from the local
sherriff) Philip K. Dick churned out eleven
science fiction novels between 1963-4. In 1964
Anne and Philip divorced.

Moving back to San Francisco in 1964 he
also experienced his forst L.S.D. trip. Like
many people during the sixties he experimented
with a range of drugs, but the greatest
influence, and the source of many of his marital
failures, was his growing addiction to
amphetamines.1 Eventually this addiction led him
to several breakdowns in the 1960's. His
addiction also resulted in his fourth wife Nancy
Hackett leaving him. Philip had married Nancy
in 1966.

For Philip Dick, the 1970s were a strange
time. It began when Nancy left him. He also
became concerned over a mysterious break and
entry into his home and he became convinced that
it was the handy work of the C.I.A., thus began

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