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Ellison also sold scripts to many television shows: The Loretta Young Show (using the name Harlan Ellis), The Flying Nun, Burke's Law, Route 66, The Outer Limits, Star Trek, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Cimarron Strip, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.Įllison's screenplay for the Star Trek episode " The City on the Edge of Forever" has been considered the best of the 79 episodes in the series. He co-wrote the screenplay for The Oscar (1966), starring Stephen Boyd and Elke Sommer. Hollywood and beyond Įllison speaking at an SF convention, 2006Įllison moved to California in 1962 and began selling his writing to Hollywood. Īfter leaving the army, he relocated to Chicago, where he edited Rogue magazine. His first novel, Web of the City, was published during his military service in 1958, and he said that he had written the bulk of it while undergoing basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia. The short stories collected as Sex Gang - which Ellison described in a 2012 interview as "mainstream erotica" - date from this period. Over the next two years, he published more than 100 short stories and articles. ) Ellison moved to New York City in 1955 to pursue a writing career, primarily in science fiction. During this period, Ellison was an active and visible member of science fiction fandom, and published his own science fiction fanzines, such as Dimensions (which had previously been the Bulletin of the Cleveland Science Fantasy Society for the Cleveland Science Fantasy Society, and later Science Fantasy Bulletin. Įllison published two serialized stories in the Cleveland News during 1949, and he sold a story to EC Comics early in the 1950s. He said the expulsion was for hitting a professor who had denigrated his writing ability, and over the next 20 or so years he sent that professor a copy of every story that he published. Įllison attended Ohio State University for 18 months (1951–53) before being expelled.
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In 1947, a fan letter he wrote to Real Fact Comics became his first published writing.
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Ellison frequently ran away from home (in an interview with Tom Snyder he would later claim it was due to discrimination by his high school peers), taking an array of odd jobs-including, by age 18, "tuna fisherman off the coast of Galveston, itinerant crop-picker down in New Orleans, hired gun for a wealthy neurotic, nitroglycerine truck driver in North Carolina, short-order cook, cab driver, lithographer, book salesman, floorwalker in a department store, door-to-door brush salesman, and as a youngster, an actor in several productions at the Cleveland Play House". His family subsequently moved to Painesville, Ohio, but returned to Cleveland in 1949, following his father's death. She died in 2010 without having spoken to him since their mother's funeral in 1976. He had an older sister, Beverly (Rabnick), who was born in 1926. Ellison won numerous awards, including multiple Hugos, Nebulas, and Edgars.Įllison's "The Abnormals", the cover story for the April 1959 Fantastic, appears in Ellison collections as " The Discarded".Įllison was born to a Jewish family in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 27, 1934, the son of Serita (née Rosenthal) and Louis Laverne Ellison, a dentist and jeweler. He was also editor and anthologist for Dangerous Visions (1967) and Again, Dangerous Visions (1972). Some of his best-known works include the 1967 Star Trek episode " The City on the Edge of Forever" (he subsequently wrote a book about the experience that includes his original screenplay), his A Boy and His Dog cycle, and his short stories " I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" and " 'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman". His published works include more than 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, comic book scripts, teleplays, essays, and a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media. Robert Bloch, the author of Psycho, described Ellison as "the only living organism I know whose natural habitat is hot water."
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Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction and for his outspoken, combative personality.