Harlan Ellison Wikipedia. Harlan Ellison. Ellison in 1. Born. Harlan Jay Ellison1. May 2. 7, 1. 93. 4 ageĀ 8. Cleveland, Ohio, United States1Pen name. Cordwainer Bird, Nalrah Nosille, and 8 others23Occupation. Author, screenwriter, essayist. Period. 19. 55present3Genre. Speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, crime fiction, mystery, horror, film and television criticism. Literary movement. New Wave. Notable works. Dangerous Visions editor, A Boy and His Dog, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, Repent, Harlequin Said the Ticktockman. Spouse. Charlotte B. Stein 1. 95. 66. Billie Joyce Sanders 1. Loretta Basham Patrick 1. Lori Horowitz 1. Susan Toth m. Websiteharlanellison. Vcenter Operations Manager Keygen Download. Harlan Ellison. Influences. Edgar Allan Poe, Theodore Sturgeon, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Frederic Prokosch, Jim Thompson, Gerald Kersh, Cornell Woolrich, Fritz Leiber, Isaac Asimov. Harlan Jay Ellison born May 2. American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction. His published works include over 1,7. He was editor and anthologist for two science fiction anthologies, Dangerous Visions 1. Again, Dangerous Visions 1. Ellison has won numerous awards including multiple Hugos, Nebulas and Edgars. Early life and careeredit. Ellisons 1. 95. 7 novelette The Savage Swarm, cover featured in Amazing Stories, has never been included in an authorized collection or anthology. A few months later, another Ellison novelette, The Steel Napoleon, also took the cover of Amazing. It also remains uncollected. Another uncollected Ellison novelette, Satan Is My Ally, was the cover story on the May 1. Fantastic Science Fiction. Ellison wrote The Wife Factory for Fantastic under the house name Clyde Mitchell. The novelette has never been republished. Ellisons Suicide World, the cover story for the October 1. Fantastic, also remains uncollected. Ellisons The Abnormals, the cover story for the April 1. Fantastic, appears in Ellison collections as The DiscardedEllison was born to a Jewish family4 in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 2. Serita ne Rosenthal and Louis Laverne Ellison, a dentist and jeweler. His family subsequently moved to Painesville, Ohio, but returned to Cleveland in 1. Ellison frequently ran away from home, taking an array of odd jobsincluding, by age 1. 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. Ellison attended the Ohio State University for 1. He has said the expulsion was for hitting a professor who had denigrated his writing ability, and over the next twenty or so years he sent that professor a copy of every story he published. Ellison published two stories in the Cleveland News during 1. EC Comics early in the 1. Ellison moved to New York City in 1. Over the next two years, he published more than 1. He married Charlotte Stein in 1. He said of the marriage, four years of hell as sustained as the whine of a generator. Ellison served in the army from 1. Hollywood and beyondedit. Ellison speaking at an SF conference, 2. Ellison moved to California in 1. Hollywood. He wrote the screenplay for The Oscar, starring Stephen Boyd and Elke Sommer. Ellison also sold scripts to many television shows The Flying Nun, Burkes Law, Route 6. The Outer Limits,1. Star Trek, The Man from U. N. C. L. E., Cimarron Strip, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Ellisons screenplay for the Star Trek episode The City on the Edge of Forever has been considered the best of the 7. He participated in the Selma to Montgomery marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, led by Martin Luther King, Jr. Also in 1. 96. 6, in an article Esquire magazine would later name as the best magazine piece ever written, the journalist Gay Talese wrote about the goings on around the enigmatic Frank Sinatra. The article, entitled Frank Sinatra Has a Cold, briefly describes a clash between the young Harlan Ellison and Frank Sinatra, when the crooner took exception to Ellisons boots during a billiards game. Talese wrote of the incident, Sinatra probably forgot about it at once, but Ellison will remember it all his life. Ellison was hired as a writer for Walt Disney Studios but was fired on his first day after Roy O. Disney overheard him in the studio commissary joking about making a pornographic animated film featuring Disney characters. Ellison recounted this incident in his book Stalking the Nightmare, as part 3 of an essay titled The 3 Most Important Things in Life. Ellison continued to publish short fiction and nonfiction pieces in various publications, including some of his best known stories. Repent, Harlequin Said the Ticktockman 1. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream 1. Hell, where five humans are tormented by an all knowing computer throughout eternity the story was the basis of a 1. Ellison participated in the games design and provided the voice of the god computer AM. Another story, A Boy and His Dog, examines the nature of friendship and love in a violent, post apocalyptic world and was made into the 1. Don Johnson. Ellison served as creative consultant to the 1. The Twilight Zone science fiction TV series and Babylon 5. As a member of the Screen Actors Guild SAG, he has voiceover credits for shows including The Pirates of Dark Water, Mother Goose and Grimm, Space Cases, Phantom 2. Babylon 5, as well as made an onscreen appearance in the Babylon 5 episode The Face of the Enemy. Ellisons 1. 99. 2 short story The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore was selected for inclusion in the 1. The Best American Short Stories. In 2. 01. 4 Ellison made a guest appearance on the album Finding Love in Hell by the stoner metal band Leaving Babylon, reading his piece The Silence originally published in Mind Fields as an introduction to the song Dead to Me. Ellison and others have maintained his official website harlanellison. Ellison himself has not posted there since 2. Pseudonyms editEllison has on occasion used the pseudonym Cordwainer Bird to alert members of the public to situations in which he feels his creative contribution to a project has been mangled beyond repair by others, typically Hollywood producers or studios see also Alan Smithee. The first such work to which he signed the name was The Price of Doom, an episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea though it was misspelled as Cord Wainer Bird in the credits. An episode of Burkes Law Who Killed Alex Debbs credited to Ellison contains a character given this name, played by Sammy Davis, Jr. The Cordwainer Bird moniker is a tribute to fellow SF writer Paul M. A. Linebarger, better known by his pen name, Cordwainer Smith. The origin of the word cordwainer is shoemaker from working with cordovan leather for shoes. The term used by Linebarger was meant to imply the industriousness of the pulp author. Ellison has said, in interviews and in his writing, that his version of the pseudonym was meant to mean a shoemaker for birds. Since he has used the pseudonym mainly for works he wants to distance himself from, it may be understood to mean that this work is for the birds or that it is of as much use as shoes to a bird. Stephen King once said he thought that it meant that Ellison was giving people who mangled his work a literary version of the bird given credence by Ellison himself in his own essay titled Somehow, I Dont Think Were in Kansas, Toto, describing his experience with the Starlost television series. The Bird moniker has since become a character in one of Ellisons own stories, not without some prompting. In his book Strange Wine, Ellison explains the origins of the Bird and goes on to state that Philip Jose Farmer wrote Cordwainer into the Wold Newton family the latter writer had developed.