Harlan Ellison was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a Jewish-American family. His family moved to Painesville, Ohio, but returned to Cleveland in 1949 after the death of his father. As a child, he performed in minstrel shows, and frequently ran away from home, taking odd jobs. He attended Ohio State University but was expelled after 18 months for hitting a professor who had denigrated his writing ability. He moved to New York City in 1955 to become a science fiction writer. Over the next two years, he published more than 100 short stories and articles. In 1957, he joined a street gang in Brooklyn as research for his novel Web of the City/Rumble and short story collection The Deadly Streets. In the late 1950s, he wrote erotic fiction under the pseudonym Cordwainer Bird. Later, he used the pseudonym for works that he felt were warped beyond his original intention by editors or producers.
He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1957 and returned to New York in 1960, before moving to Chicago, to write for Rogue magazine and work as an editor for Regency Books. In 1962, he moved to California and began writing for Hollywood film studios in. His first screenplay was for the film The Oscar. He also wrote scripts for television shows such as The Flying Nun, Burke's Law, Route 66, The Outer Limits, Star Trek, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Cimarron Strip.
During the late 1960s, he also wrote a column about political and social issues in television for the Los Angeles Free Press titled "The Glass Teat."
Ellison has won ten Hugo Awards, four Nebula Awards, and five Bram Stoker Awards (presented by the Horror Writers Association) including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996. He has written nine novels, hundreds of short stories, and many articles and essays. He continues to write from his home in Los Angeles, California with Susan, his fifth wife.
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American Science fiction, American Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, general, Science fiction, American, English Science fiction, Fantasy fiction, American, Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, short stories (single author), American Short stories, American Detective and mystery stories, American Horror tales, American fiction, Children's fiction, Comic books, strips, Detective and mystery stories, American, English Fantasy fiction, English Short stories, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, science fiction, collections & anthologies, Gangs, Graphic novels, Horror talesPlaces
United States, Baker Street, Carcosa, John F. Kennedy International Airport, London, New Jersey, New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State), Paris, rabbit roomPeople
Archie, C. Auguste Dupin, Cindy Morrison, Duncan Ross, Hugh Morgan, Jabez Wilson, Jimmy McCann, John Clay, John H. Watson, Minister D—, Mr. Merryweather, Police Inspector Jones, Prince Prospero, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Richard Morrison, Sherlock Holmes, Victor Donatti, Vincent Spaulding, William HarkerID Numbers
- OLID: OL200394A
- ISNI: 0000000110269335
- VIAF: 54147301
- Wikidata: Q311253
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q311253
Alternative names
- Cordwainer Bird
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