Luke Rhinehart was the acclaimed author of ten works of fiction. His novel The Dice Man has been translated into 27 languages and has been praised by Loaded Magazine as "the Novel of the Century," by a BBC production as "one of the most influential books of the last half century," and by the London Telegraph as "one of the fifty great cult books of the last 50 years."

Luke Rhinehart was actually the pen name of a New York psychoanalyst, George Powers Cockroft. Cockroft passed away in November 2020.