A scanned newspaper page from The Berkeley Gazette (Berkeley, California), dated Thursday, February 21, 1952, page 15. The clipping was sourced from Newspapers.com and downloaded on April 9, 2025. The PDF text layer contains only source metadata with no recoverable article text.
The date of February 1952 is significant in Dick's biography: this was the very beginning of his professional writing career. Dick's first published story, "Beyond Lies the Wub," appeared in Planet Stories in July 1952, and by early 1952 he was actively writing and submitting stories. The Berkeley Gazette was the local newspaper for Berkeley, where Dick lived and worked in a record store during this formative period. This clipping documents the local environment during the launch of Dick's literary career.