Young Authors' Club (English)


Between 1942 and 1944 the local newspaper Berkeley Gazette (or Berkeley Daily Gazette) published 16 stories and poems of the early Philip K. Dick in the Young Authors' Club column. Two of those have been published under the pen name of Mark van Dyke, noted here as MvD.

Title Date Page Remark
Le Diable 23.01.1942 16 NewspaperARCHIVE
The Handy Puddle 03.02.1942 12
Jungle People 17.02.1942 6, 14
The Black Arts 16.09.1942 14
The Pirate 07.10.1942
He's Dead 13.10.1942 Poem
Knight Fight 27.10.1942 14
The Highbrow 26.10.1943 14
Santa's Return 04.01.1944 16 Christmas Story
A Satire on the Translating of Sixteenth
Century Prophetic Verse
25.01.1944 16
The Magician's Box 7.02.1944 16
Marcus and His End 21.02.1944 14 Poem, MvD
The Slave Race 8.05.1944 14
The First Presentation 22.05.1944 14
The Visitation 14.08.1944 16 MvD
Program Notes on a Great Composer 22.09.1944 16


The scans of the Berkeley Gazette at the Google News Archive are not complete, so not all of the stories could be linked. Also, the scans at Google are frequently linked to the wrong dates. Some of the links above reference articles close to the 
Young Authors' Club column, because it is often not recognized as a separate article and cannot be linked. The page number can be used as a guide then.
Another source of scans of the Berkeley Gazette is the NewspaperARCHIVE, which is with cost and also incomplete. The appropriate comment indicates if the article can be found there, in case it is not available at Google.

There are additional publications of these pieces:
  • Gregg Rickman: To the High Castle, Philip K. Dick: A Life 1928-1962, Fragments West / Valentine Press (1989) - contains He's Dead, The Slave Race and Santa's Return.
  • Frank Hollander: Young Authors' Club, The Wartime Adolescent Writings of Philip K. Dick - Contains all? articels from the Berkeley Gazette
  •  The Slave Race, (2020). 12 Seiten - contains The Slave Race Blogpost (German, tbd)

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