A 2-page scanned PDF of 'The Jungle People,' an early piece by Philip K. Dick published in the Berkeley Daily Gazette on February 17, 1942. No OCR text layer is present. Dick would have been approximately thirteen years old at the time of publication, making this among his earliest known published writings.
The Berkeley Daily Gazette was Dick's local newspaper during his childhood and adolescence in Berkeley, California. Publication at age thirteen demonstrates Dick's precocious literary ambition and the early development of his distinctive imaginative vision. The title 'The Jungle People' suggests an adventure or exotic fiction theme typical of juvenile writing. This document is of considerable biographical interest as evidence of Dick's earliest creative development and his initial entry into the world of published writing.