Author
Harlan Ellison
27 May 1934 – 27 June 2018
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.
Bibliography
Books
30 books
Again, Dangerous Visions
1967
Harlan Ellison, John Heidenry, Ross Rocklynne, Ursula K. Le Guin, Andrew J. Offutt, Gene Wolfe, Ray Nelson, Ray Bradbury, Chad Oliver, Edward Bryant, Kate Wilhelm, James B. Hemesath, Joanna Russ, Kurt Vonnegut, T. L. Sherred, K. M. O'Donnell, H. H. Hollis, Bernard Wolfe, David Gerrold, Piers Anthony, Lee Hoffman, Gahan Wilson, Joan Bernott, Gregory Benford, Evelyn Lief, James Sallis, Josephine Saxton, Ken McCullough, David Kerr, Burt K. Filer, Richard Hill, Leonard Tushnet, Ben Bova, Edward Gorman, James Blish, A. Parra, Thomas M. Disch, Richard A. Lupoff, John Harrison, Robin Scott, Andrew Weiner, Terry Carr, James Tiptree, Jr., Dean Koontz, Piers Anthony, Ben Bova
The Dark Descent
1987
David G. Hartwell, Stephen King, John Collier, Montague Rhodes James, Lucy Clifford, Russell Kirk, H.P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ray Bradbury, Michael Shea, Edith Nesbit, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Aickman, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman, Thomas M. Disch, Theodore Sturgeon, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Faulkner, Robert Smythe Hichens, Richard Matheson, Joanna Russ, Dennis Etchison, D. H. Lawrence, Tanith Lee, Flannery O'Connor, Ramsey Campbell, Henry James, Gene Wolfe, Charles Dickens, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter De la Mare, Ivan Turguenev, Robert Chambers, Oliver Onions, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Algernon Blackwood, Philip K. Dick
![The Hugo Winners [volume I] cover](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/14314020-L.jpg)
The Hugo Winners [volume I]
1962
Isaac Asimov, Walter M. Miller Jr., Eric Frank Russell, Murray Leinster, Arthur C. Clarke, Avram Davidson, Clifford D. Simak, Robert Bloch, Daniel Keyes, Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson, Harlan Ellison, Jack Vance, Larry Niven, Anne McCaffrey, Philip José Farmer, Fritz Leiber, Robert Silverberg, Samuel R. Delany
Machines That Think
1984
Isaac Asimov, Patricia S. Warrick, Martin H. Greenberg, Ambrose Bierce, John Wyndham, Harl Vincent, Harry Bates, Robert Moore Williams, Lester del Rey, A. E. van Vogt, Harlan Ellison, Murray Leinster, Poul Anderson, Walter M. Miller Jr., Jesse F. Bone, Harry Harrison, Michael Shaara, Philip K. Dick, Gordon R. Dickson, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Silverberg, John Brunner, Frederic Brown, Vernor Vinge, Gene Wolfe, George Zebrowski
The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time
1998
Otto Penzler, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy, Arthur Conan Doyle, Melville Davisson Post, Ernest William Hornung, Edith Wharton, Jack London, O. Henry, Jacques Futrelle, Robert Barr, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Frederick Irving Anderson, Vincent Starrett, Aldous Huxley, Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Burke, Georges Simenon, Logan Clendening, James Gould Cozzens, Lord Dunsany, John Collier, Ben Ray Redman, Robert Bloch, Barry Perowne, James Thurber, C. P. Donnel, Harry Kemelman, Ogden Nash, Stanley Ellin, A. A. Milne, Ellery Queen, Evan Hunter, Mickey Spillane, Jack Ritchie, Patricia Highsmith, Edward D. Hoch, Isaac Asimov, John Gardner, Stephen King, Clark Howard, Ruth Rendell, Lawrence Block, Stephen Greenleaf, James Ellroy, Sara Paretsky, Harlan Ellison, Charles McCarry, Elmore Leonard
Harlan Ellison's The city on the edge of forever (teleplay)
1995
Harlan Ellison, Scott Tipton, David Tipton
![The Fantasy Hall of Fame [30 stories] cover](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/14411044-L.jpg)
The Fantasy Hall of Fame [30 stories]
1985
Robert Silverberg, H. L. Gold, L. Sprague De Camp, C. L. Moore, Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Boucher, Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, Robert A. Heinlein, James Blish, Jack Vance, Margaret St. Clair, Theodore Sturgeon, Avram Davidson, Poul Anderson, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, Peter S. Beagle, J. G. Ballard, R. A. Lafferty, Philip K. Dick, Clifford D. Simak, Tanith Lee, Harlan Ellison, Gene Wolfe, Roger Zelazny, Lucius Shepard, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ted Chiang
The Living Dead
2008
John Joseph Adams, Dan Simmons, Kelly Link, Dale Bailey, Sherman Alexie, David J. Schow, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Michael Swanwick, Darrell Schweitzer, Jeffrey Ford, Susan Palwick, Clive Barker, David Tallerman, Joe Hill, Laurell K. Hamilton, Norman Partridge, Brian Evenson, Hannah Wolf Bowen, Stephen King, Douglas E. Winter, Lisa Morton, George R. R. Martin, Joe R. Lansdale, David Barr Kirtley, Nancy Kilpatrick, Neil Gaiman, Catherine Cheek, Adam-Troy Castro, Andy Duncan, Poppy Z. Brite, Will McIntosh, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, Nancy Holder, Scott Edelman, John Langan
Microcosmic Tales
1980
Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, Donald Franson, Norman E. Hartman, Jack Ritchie, Charles E. Fritch, Phyllis Eisenstein, Fredric Brown, Robert Mattingly, Barry N. Malzberg, Jack Dann, George Zebrowski, Charles Sheffield, George H. Smith, Robert F. Decker, Harry Harrison, Richard Wilson, T. E. D. Klein, Richard K. Lyon, Arthur C. Clarke, Patricia Matthews, Alan Brennert, James Tiptree, Jr., Anthony Boucher, Bob Shaw, Walt Liebscher, Mack Reynolds, A. E. van Vogt, Paul Dellinger, Harlan Ellison, Henry Slesar, Ron Montana, Joanna Russ, Theodore Cogswell, Marcia Martin, Eric Vinicoff, Edward Bryant, Garen Drussaï, William F. Nolan, Helen M. Urban, Robert Silverberg, Alice Laurance, Robert Sheckley, Charles A. Spano Jr., Craig Strete, Rick Conley, Manly Wade Wellman, Dennis R. Caro, Eric Frank Russell, Robert Payes, Fritz Leiber, Ray Russell, Roberta Ghidalia, Sherwood Springer, Joseph F. Patrouch, Roland J. Green, H. L. Gold, Jan Howard Finder, Ruth Berman, James E. Gunn, Philip José Farmer, Bill Pronzini, Arthur Tofte, F. M. Busby, Paul J. Nahin, James A. Stevens, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Juleen Brantingham, Maggie Nadler, Lester del Rey, Larry Niven, Edward Wellen
Galaxy
1980
Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, Fritz Leiber, Damon Knight, William Tenn, Robert Sheckley, William Morrison, Jerome Bixby, Margaret St. Clair, Alan Arkin, Zenna Henderson, Cordwainer Smith, Judith Merril, Algis Budrys, Jim Harmon, Allan Danzig, Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Larry Niven, James Tiptree, Jr., Theodore Sturgeon, R. A. Lafferty, Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Cyril M. Kornbluth, John Varley, Alfred Bester, H. L. Gold, Genevieve Collins Linebarger
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder
1989
David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer, John M. Ford, Suzette Haden Elgin, Robin McKinley, Ursula K. Le Guin, Osbert Stiwell, Johannes Bobrowski, Anne McCaffrey, Rudy Rucker, Avram Davidson, Jack Finney, Margaret St. Clair, Murilo Rbiao, Harlan Ellison, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Patricia A. McKillip, Peter S. Beagle, J. G. Ballard, R. A. Lafferty, James Tiptree, Jr., E. T. A. Hoffmann, Graham Greene, John Brunner, Jack Vance
The Hugo Winners, Volumes one and two
1962
Isaac Asimov, Walter M. Miller Jr., Eric Frank Russell, Murray Leinster, Arthur C. Clarke, Avram Davidson, Clifford D. Simak, Robert Bloch, Daniel Keyes, Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson, Harlan Ellison, Jack Vance, Larry Niven, Anne McCaffrey, Philip José Farmer, Fritz Leiber, Robert Silverberg, Samuel R. Delany
The Color of Evil
1991
David G. Hartwell, Stephen King, John Collier, Montague Rhodes James, Lucy Clifford, Russell Kirk, H.P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sheridan Le Fanu, Ray Bradbury, Michael Shea, Edith Nesbit, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Aickman, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman
The New Hugo winners, Volume II
1991
Isaac Asimov, Roger Zelazny, Harlan Ellison, Frederik Pohl, Robert Silverberg, Greg Bear, Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lawrence Watt-Evans
The Hugo Winners, Volume Three
1977
Isaac Asimov, Fritz Leiber, Theodore Sturgeon, Poul Anderson, Larry Niven, Ursula K. Le Guin, Frederik Pohl, Cyril M. Kornbluth, R. A. Lafferty, James Tiptree, Jr., Harlan Ellison, George R. R. Martin
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
2011
Otto Penzler, W. B. Seabrook, David A. Riley, Hugh B. Cave, Chet Williamson, Arthur Leo Zagat, Lisa Tuttle, Karen Haber, Michael Marshall Smith, Vivian Meik, Guy de Maupassant, Steve Rasnic Tem, Dale Bailey, Henry Kuttner, Edgar Allan Poe, Yvonne Navarro, Charles Birkin, Geoffrey A. Landis, Graham Masterton, Jack Darcy, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Kevin J. Anderson, Richard Laymon, Sheridan Le Fanu, Thorp McClusky, Mary A. Turzillo, Mort Castle, Henry S. Whitehead, Peter Berresford Ellis, Thomas Burke, Anthony Boucher, Gahan Wilson, Ramsey Campbell, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Seabury Quinn, Francis Marion Crawford, Ralston Shields, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, John H. Knox, Uel Key, Theodore Sturgeon, Day Keene, Kilworth, Garry, Edith Jacobson, Ejler Jacobson, Richard Matheson, Christian Matheson, Michael Swanwick, Manly Wade Wellman, Robert McCammon, Joe R. Lansdale, Robert E. Howard, Scott Edelman, August Derleth, Mark Schorer, Stephen King, Arthur J Burks, Theodore Roscoe
Alien Sex
1990
Ellen Datlow, Leigh Kennedy, Rick Wilber, Harlan Ellison, Scott Baker, Larry Niven, K. W. Jeter, Philip José Farmer, Lisa Tuttle, Bruce McAllister, Edward Bryant, Pat Cadigan, Geoff Ryman, Connie Willis, Richard Christian Matheson, Lewis Shiner, Roberta Lannes, James Tiptree, Jr., Michaela Roessner, Pat Murphy
