Editing Frank Herbert (section)

===Education===
He enrolled in high school at Salem High School (now [[North Salem High School (Salem, Oregon)|North Salem High School]]), where he graduated the next year.<ref name="salem"/> In 1939, his parents and sister had moved to Los Angeles, California, so Frank followed them. He lied about his age to get his first newspaper job at the ''Glendale Star''.<ref name="Post-Gazette Obit">{{cite news |title=Frank Herbert, author of sci-fi best sellers, dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/pittsburgh-post-gazette-13feb1986-pit/4656607/ |work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] |date=February 13, 1986 |access-date=July 27, 2009 |archive-date=February 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240216172036/https://www.newspapers.com/article/pittsburgh-post-gazette-13feb1986-pit/4656607/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref name="salem" />

Herbert married Flora Lillian Parkinson in [[San Pedro, Los Angeles|San Pedro]], [[California]], in 1941. They had one daughter, Penelope (b. February 16, 1942), and divorced in 1943.<ref name="flpdivorce">Oregon Center For Health Statistics; Portland, Oregon, US; ''Oregon, Divorce Records, 1925–1945''; Document no. 30939</ref> During 1942, after the U.S. entry into [[World War II]], he served in the [[U.S. Navy's]] [[Seabees]] for six months as a photographer, but suffered a head injury and was given a medical discharge. Herbert subsequently moved to [[Portland, Oregon]] where he reported for ''[[The Oregon Journal]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.historylink.org/File/21248|work=[[HistoryLink]]|title=Herbert, Frank Patrick (1920–1986)|last=Beck|first=Katherine|date=June 9, 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210904204522/https://www.historylink.org/File/21248|archive-date=September 4, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>

After the war, Herbert attended the [[University of Washington]], where he met Beverly Ann Stuart at a creative writing class in 1946. They were the only students who had sold any work for publication; Herbert had sold two [[pulp magazine|pulp]] adventure stories to magazines, the first to ''[[Esquire Magazine|Esquire]]'' in 1945 titled "Survival of the Cunning", and Stuart had sold a story to ''Modern Romance'' magazine. They married in Seattle in 1946, and had two sons, [[Brian Herbert|Brian]] (b. 1947) and Bruce (1951–1993).<ref>{{cite web|title=Marin County: Newspaper Obituaries of AIDS Victims (1984–1994)|url=http://www.sfgenealogy.com/marin/aids/aidsobits.htm|access-date=March 26, 2011|work=[[Marin Independent Journal]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081024150121/http://www.sfgenealogy.com/marin/aids/aidsobits.htm|archive-date=October 24, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Herbert, Frank (1920-1986), science fiction writer |url=https://www.anb.org/display/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1603065 |access-date=April 24, 2024 |website=American National Biography |date=2000 |language=en |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1603065 |last1=Cohen |first1=Geoff }}</ref> In 1949 Herbert and his wife moved to California to work on the Santa Rosa ''[[Press-Democrat]]''. Here they befriended the psychologists Ralph and Irene Slattery. The Slatterys introduced Herbert to the work of several thinkers who would influence his writing, including [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]], [[Carl Jung|Jung]], [[Karl Jaspers|Jaspers]] and [[Martin Heidegger|Heidegger]]; they also familiarized Herbert with [[Zen Buddhism]].<ref>Irene Slattery had been a former student of Jung's in Zurich. See [[#CITEREFTouponce1988|Touponce 1988, pp. 9–10]].</ref>

Herbert never graduated from college. According to his son Brian, he wanted to study only what interested him and so did not complete the required curriculum. He returned to journalism and worked at the ''[[Seattle Star]]'' and the ''[[Oregon Statesman]]''. He was a writer and editor for the ''[[San Francisco Examiner]]''{{'s}} ''California Living'' magazine for a decade.