Editing Luke Rhinehart (section)

===Personal life and family===
Cockcroft married his wife, Ann, who later became a writer of two romance novels and a volume of poetry, in June 1956. Together they have three children.<ref name=guardian1/> 

The author and his family spent a number of years traveling, sailing, and returning to Mallorca, living in Deià in the late 1960s and early 70s,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.charlesmarlow.com/blog/2017/01/20/luke-rhineharts-invasion/ |title=Luke Rhinehart's Invasion: Keeping you warm in these chilly times |website=www.charlesmarlow.com |date= 20 January 2017|access-date=2020-12-20}}</ref> including time spent on a large [[catamaran]], which became the inspiration for the boat in his novel ''[[Long Voyage Back]]''. In the mid-1970s they returned to the United States. They spent 1975 in a [[sufi]] [[Intentional community|commune]], before moving to a large old [[farmhouse]] and former religious retreat in the foothills of the Berkshires in [[upstate New York]].