Editing Frank Herbert (section)

===Early life===
Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. was born on October 8, 1920, in [[Tacoma, Washington]],{{sfn|Touponce|1988|p=4}}<ref>{{Cite news|date=February 13, 1986|title=Frank Herbert Is Dead at 65; Author of the 'Dune' Novels|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|agency=[[Associated Press]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/13/obituaries/frank-herbert-is-dead-at-65-author-of-the-dune-novels.html|access-date=October 24, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> to Franklin Patrick Herbert Sr. and Eileen ([[née]] McCarthy) Herbert.<ref name="Google Books">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EfqTPwAACAAJ|title= Dune|isbn=978-0881036367|quote=Frank Herbert was born Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. in Tacoma, Washington on October 8, 1920.|access-date=January 21, 2018|last1=Herbert|first1=Frank|date= 1990|publisher= Turtleback|via=Google Books}}</ref> His paternal grandparents had come west in 1905 to join Burley Colony in Kitsap County, one of many utopian communes springing up in Washington State beginning in the 1890s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Herbert, Frank Patrick (1920-1986) |url=https://historylink.org/File/21248 |access-date=October 6, 2024 |website=historylink.org}}</ref> His upbringing included spending a lot of time on the rural [[Olympic Peninsula|Olympic]] and [[Kitsap Peninsula]]s.<ref>{{Cite book|last=O'Reilly|first=Timothy|url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107740264|title=Frank Herbert|date=1981|publisher=Frederick Ungar Publishing Company|page=14}}</ref> He was fascinated by books, could read much of the newspaper before the age of five, had an excellent memory, and learned quickly.<ref name="Herbert">{{Cite book|last=Herbert|first=Brian|url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5306564|title=Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert|date=2003|language=English}}</ref> He had an early interest in photography, buying a [[Brownie (camera)|Kodak box]] camera at age ten, a new folding camera in his early teens, and a color film camera in the mid-1930s.<ref name="Herbert"/> Due to his parents' drinking, he ran away from home with his little sister, 5-year-old Patricia Lou, in 1938 to live with  Frank's favorite maternal aunt, Peggy "Violet" Rowntree, and her husband, Ken Rowntree, Sr.<ref name="salem">{{Cite book |last=Herbert |first=Brian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z3SF08iQGpEC&pg=PT39 |title=Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert |date=April 19, 2003 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-1-4299-5844-8 |language=en}}</ref> Within weeks, Patricia moved back home. But Frank, 18, remained with his aunt and uncle.