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Dick Higgins was born in Cambridge, England on March 15, 1938. Higgins was raised in New England and attended private boarding school, before attending Yale University, Manhattan School of Printing, and the New School. He earned a bachelor's degree in English from Columbia University in 1960 and a master's degree from New York University in 1977. Higgins married artist Alison Knowles in 1960, and they had two daughters, Hannah and Jessica Higgins. Higgins and Knowles divorced in 1970 and remarried in 1984. Higgins died of a heart attack in Quebec City in 1998.
Dick Higgins was a founding member of the Fluxus movement. He established the Something Else Press in 1963, which printed unusual books of avant-garde art and literature by others in the movement. Higgins wrote and edited forty-seven books, and was an early and influential proponent of computer-generated literary texts.