Philip K. Dick
Though Philip K. Dick certainly wasn’t unknown while he was alive, his works weren’t the household names they are know. The sci-fi writer won many Hugo awards and was popular in sci-fi circles, but not beyond. He died just before the release of “Blade Runner,” an adaptation of his novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”. His work has since been adapted into other major on-screen successes, such as “Minority Report” and the series “The Man in the High Castle.”