The Dark Haired Girl is a collection of essays, poems and letters by Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick

Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments and altered...

. It was first published by Mark V. Ziesing

Mark V. Ziesing

Mark V. Ziesing is a small press publisher and bookseller. Active as a bookseller from 1972 to present, Ziesing was active in publishing from the mid-1980s into the late 1990s. The Ziesing publishing imprint specialized in science fiction, horror, and other forms of speculative fiction...

 in 1989.

Ziesing considers this the necessary companion volume to the complete collected works of the author. The letters, in particular, provide graphic evidence of Dick's all-too-human qualities within the context of his multiple relationships and/or marriages.

Contents

• Introduction, by Paul Williams
  Paul Williams (Crawdaddy! creator)
  Paul Williams is an American music journalist and writer. Williams created the first national US magazine of rock music criticism :Crawdaddy! in January 1966 on the campus of Swarthmore College with the help of some of his fellow science fiction fans...
  
  
• "The Dark-Haired Girl"
• The Android and the Human
• poem
• The Evolution of a Vital Love
• letters, to Edgar Dick
• Man, Android and Machine
• letter, to Laura Dick
• "Goodbye, Vincent"