Biography of richard matheson

Richard Matheson was born in He began publishing SF with his short story 'Born of Man and Woman' in I Am Legend was published in and subsequently filmed as The Omega Man (in ), starring Charlton Heston, and I Am Legend (in ), starring Will Smith. Matheson wrote the script for the film The Incredible Shrinking Man, an adaptation of his second SF novel The Shrinking Man. The film won a Hugo award in He wrote many screenplays as well as episodes of The Twilight Zone. He continued to write short stories and novels, some of which formed the basis for film scripts, including Duel, directed by Steven Spielberg in A film of his novel What Dreams May Come was released in , starring Robin Williams. Stephen King has cited Richard Matheson as a creative influence on his work. Photo by JaSunni at PicasaWeb [CC BY-SA ()], via Wikimedia Commons.

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() US screenwriter and author, initially thought of as primarily an sf writer, having begun to publish work of genre interest with "Born of Man and Woman" for TheMagazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Summer ; he was a creator of terror and fantasy in both fiction and film; his Westerns, however, are mostly nonfantastic. His sometimes daring transgressions of conventional genre boundaries marked him from the first as a natural (and muscular) user of Equipoisal devices and assumptions; indeed, he had regarded his first (and still most famous single) tale as a simple terror story but, on finding it praised as sf – it tells in affecting pidgin English of a terrifying Mutant child and of his break towards a kind of freedom (see Children in SF) – decided to cash in on the then-current sf boom, including most of his best early work in Born of Man and Woman: Tales of Science Fiction and Fantasy (coll ; with fyra stories cut v

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Richard Matheson

Biography

Richard Matheson Born Richard Burton Matheson on February 20, , in Allendale, New Jersey, the third child of Bertolf Matheson and Fanny Swanson Matheson (née Svenningsen), both Norwegian immigrants. Grew up without his father, who abandoned the family. Graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in Served as an Infantryman in Germany during World War II, then earned a journalism grad () from the University of Missouri. Sold his first story, “Born of Man and Woman,” to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in , followed by “Third from the Sun” (later adapted for the television series The Twilight Zone) and others the same year. Moved to Santa Monica, California, in ; married Ruth Ann Woodson, with whom he would have four children, in Worked as a postal clerk and at an airplane factory, writing stories and two suspense novels, Fury on Sunday and Someone Is Bleeding (both ), in his spare time. Published