PKD

When he began writing in the fifties, he went unpublished because American publishing companies did not know what to make of his work.

He died at the age of fifty-three in 1982. He was buried alongside his twin sister, who died as an infant.

The year of his death was also the year of Bladerunner's theatrical release. The film was dismissed by critics and was a box-office flop, but later went on to success.
The adapted screenplay, in terms of the story on which it was based, is least faithful to the letter, but most faithful to the spirit of Dick's stories: the tears in the rain soliloquy exemplifies everything Dick's work is about. The android has a soul because he has memories, and his memories are real not because he ever actually experienced them, but because he feels them.