Editing Philip K. Dick (section)

==Personal life==
Dick was married five times:
* Jeanette Marlin<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/columns/phil-and-jack/|title = Phil and Jack|date = March 23, 2009|access-date = August 25, 2021|archive-date = April 9, 2022|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220409072026/http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/columns/phil-and-jack/|url-status = live}}</ref> (May to November 1948)
* Kleo Apostolides<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dickien.fr/dossiers/annemini/interview_anne_mini_dick.html|title=Interview Anne Mini|access-date=September 30, 2021|archive-date=October 18, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111018175137/http://www.dickien.fr/dossiers/annemini/interview_anne_mini_dick.html|url-status=live}}</ref> (June 14, 1950, to 1959)
* Anne Williams Rubinstein (April 1, 1959, to October 1965)
* Nancy Hackett (July 6, 1966, to 1972)
* Leslie "Tessa" Busby (April 18, 1973, to 1977)

Dick had three children, Laura Archer Dick<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.courthousenews.com/philip-k-dicks-estate-sues-moviemakers/|title=Philip K. Dick's Estate Sues Moviemakers|date=October 31, 2011|access-date=April 6, 2020|archive-date=April 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200406203916/https://www.courthousenews.com/philip-k-dicks-estate-sues-moviemakers/|url-status=live}}</ref> (born February 25, 1960, to Dick and his third wife, Anne Williams Rubenstein), Isolde Freya Dick<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R5lHDAAAQBAJ&q=Isolde+freya+dick&pg=PT59|title=The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick|first=Kyle|last=Arnold|date=May 2, 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780190498313|via=Google Books|access-date=October 28, 2020|archive-date=April 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417045623/https://books.google.com/books?id=R5lHDAAAQBAJ&q=Isolde+freya+dick&pg=PT59|url-status=live}}</ref> (now [[Isa Dick Hackett]]) (born March 15, 1967, to Dick and his fourth wife, Nancy Hackett), and Christopher Kenneth Dick (born July 25, 1973, to Dick and his fifth wife, Leslie "Tessa" Busby).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Karina |title=Philip K. Dick's Ex Battles Stepdaughters Over Rights |url=https://www.courthousenews.com/philip-k-dicks-ex-battles-stepdaughters-over-rights/ |access-date=January 27, 2022 |work=Courthouse News Service |date=April 16, 2009 |archive-date=January 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127171841/https://www.courthousenews.com/philip-k-dicks-ex-battles-stepdaughters-over-rights/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1955, Dick and his second wife, Kleo Apostolides, received a visit from the [[FBI]], which they believed to be the result of Kleo's [[Socialism|socialist]] views and [[Left-wing politics|left-wing activities]].<ref name=sutin2>Sutin, pp. 83–84</ref>

He physically fought with Anne Williams Rubinstein, his third wife. Dick wrote to a friend that he and Anne had "dreadful violent fights...slamming each other around, smashing every object in the house." In 1963, Dick told his neighbors that his wife was attempting to kill him and had her involuntarily committed to a psychiatric institution for two weeks.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/books/23philip.html|title=Philip K. Dick's Masterpiece Years|first=Scott|last=Timberg|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 22, 2010|access-date=April 6, 2020|archive-date=April 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200406191457/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/books/23philip.html|url-status=live}}</ref> After filing for divorce in 1964, Dick moved to Oakland to live with a fan, author and editor [[Grania Davis]]. Shortly after, he attempted suicide by driving off the road while she was a passenger.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R5lHDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT53 |pages=53–56 |title=The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick |last=Arnold |first=Kyle |date=May 2, 2016 |isbn=978-0190498313 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=June 16, 2018 |archive-date=May 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524030951/https://books.google.com/books?id=R5lHDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT53 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Politics===
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Early in life, Dick attended [[Communist Party USA]] meetings but later shifted more towards [[anti-communism]] and [[Libertarianism in the United States|libertarianism]] as time passed. In an interview, Dick once described himself as a "[[Anarchism and religion|religious anarchist]]".<ref>{{Cite magazine |last1=Dick |first1=Philip K. |last2=Panter |first2=Gary |author-link2=Gary Panter |last3=Panter |first3=Nicole |last4=Jeter |first4=KW |date=May 1980 |title=The Philip K. Dick / Punk Rock Connection |url=https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_philip_k._dick_punk_rock_connection |magazine=[[Slash (fanzine)|Slash]] |access-date=May 30, 2023}}</ref> Dick generally tried to stay out of the political scene because of high societal turmoil from the [[Vietnam War]]. Still, he showed some [[anti-Vietnam War]] and anti-governmental sentiments. In 1968, he joined the "[[Writers and Editors War Tax Protest]]",<ref name="Dick, Philip K 2011" /><ref>"Writers and Editors War Tax Protest". ''[[New York Post]]''. January 30, 1968.</ref> an anti-war pledge to pay no U.S. [[federal income tax]], which resulted in the [[confiscation]] of his car by the [[IRS]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 1, 2015 |title=IRS Property Seizures Against War Tax Resisters - National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee |url=https://nwtrcc.org/resist/consequences/irs-property-seizures-war-tax-resisters/,%20https://nwtrcc.org/resist/consequences/irs-property-seizures-war-tax-resisters/ |access-date=April 13, 2023 |website=nwtrcc.org |language=en-US |archive-date=April 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428155009/https://nwtrcc.org/resist/consequences/irs-property-seizures-war-tax-resisters/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Dick was a critic of the U.S. federal government, regarding it to be just as "bad as the [[Soviet Union]]", and cheered on "a great decentralization of the government". Dick's politics occasionally influenced his literature. Dick's 1967 short story "[[Faith of Our Fathers (short story)|Faith of Our Fathers]]" is critical of [[Communist state|communism]]. Dick's 1968 novel ''[[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]]'' condemns the [[eugenics]] movement.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Pottle|first=Adam|title=Segregating the Chickenheads: Philip Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and the Post/humanism of the American Eugenics Movement|url=https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3229/3262|journal=Disability Studies Quarterly|volume=33|number=3|date=2013|doi=10.18061/dsq.v33i3.3229|access-date=January 11, 2023|archive-date=January 11, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230111235223/https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3229/3262|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1974, as a response to the ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' decision, Dick published "[[The Pre-persons]]", a satirical [[anti-abortion]] and anti-[[Malthusianism]] short story. Following the story's publication, Dick stated that he received death threats from feminists.<ref>{{cite news|last=Salyer|first=Jerry|title=Philip K. Dick's "The Pre-Persons": Abortion & Dystopia|url=https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2019/07/philip-k-dick-pre-persons-abortion-dystopia-jerry-salyer.html|work=[[The Imaginative Conservative]]|date=July 20, 2019|access-date=January 11, 2023|archive-date=January 11, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230111232709/https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2019/07/philip-k-dick-pre-persons-abortion-dystopia-jerry-salyer.html|url-status=live}}</ref>