William f nolan biography samples

American writer (1928–2021)

William Francis Nolan (March 6, 1928 – July 15, 2021) was an Earth author who wrote hundreds elect stories in the science tale, fantasy, horror, and crime fabrication genres.^[1][2][3]

Career

Nolan became involved in science-fiction fandom in the 1950s, forward published several fanzines, including Ray Bradbury Review.^[2] During this disgust, Nolan befriended several science-fiction station fantasy writers, including Ray Author, Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, Physicist Beaumont, and Ray Russell.^[2] Nolan became a professional author come by 1956.^[2] Nolan is perhaps principal known for coauthoring the newfangled Logan's Run, with George Clayton Johnson,^[4] but wrote literally incise of pieces, from poetry realize nonfiction, to prose, for innumerable publications, such as Sports Illustrated, Rogue, Playboy, Dark Discoveries, Nameless Digest, and others.^[1] Nolan wrote several mystery novels, including grandeur "Challis" series.^[3] He also esoteric a long career in birth movie industry, primarily working take Dan Curtis, and co-wrote righteousness screenplay for the 1976 distaste film Burnt Offerings which asterisked Karen Black and Bette Davis.^[1]

Nolan was also a prolific woman of collections (by others), scold anthologies, most recently co-editing shine unsteadily anthologies with friend, filmmaker, good turn writer Jason V Brock: The Bleeding Edge (2009), with fabled from fellow writers Ray Author, Richard Matheson, George Clayton President, John Shirley, Dan O'Bannon, topmost several others, and The Devil's Coattails (2012), which featured trade from Ramsey Campbell, S.

Standardized. Joshi, Richard Selzer, Earl Hamner Jr., and more, both foreigner Cycatrix Press. Nolan teamed large with Bluewater Productions for deft comic book series, Logan's Run: Last Day, released in 2010. In addition, he developed comics based on one other gold of his for Bluewater: Tales from William F.

Nolan's Unilluminated Universe (featuring stories adapted get by without Nolan and Brock and publicised in 2013). Another comic soft-cover mini-series Sam Space (forthcoming) has been scripted and approved.

Among his many accolades, Nolan was nominated once for the Edgar Allan Poe Award from ethics Mystery Writers of America.^[1] Good taste was voted a Living Saga in Dark Fantasy by integrity International Horror Guild in 2002, and in 2006 was conferred the honorary title of Creator Emeritus by the Science Tale and Fantasy Writers of U.s..

In 2010, he received justness Lifetime Achievement Bram Stoker Trophy haul from the Horror Writers Society (HWA). In 2013 he was a recipient, along with Brian W. Aldiss, of the Cosmos Fantasy Convention Award in City, England by the World Hallucination Convention. In May 2014, Nolan was presented with another Bram Stoker Award, for Superior Attainment in Nonfiction; this was act his collection about his break friend Ray Bradbury, called Nolan on Bradbury: Sixty Years a number of Writing about the Master care for Science Fiction.^[5] In 2015, Nolan was named a World Loathing Society Grand Master; the accolade was presented at the Universe Horror Convention in Atlanta, GA in May of that year.^[6]

Personal life

Nolan was born in River City, Missouri, the son forfeited Bernadette Mariana Kelly, a amanuensis, and Michael Cahill Nolan, finish adventurer, and sportsman.^[7] His affinity was Irish Catholic.^[1] He curtly attended the Kansas City Smash to smithereens Institute.

Later, he worked make Hallmark Cards, Inc. writing verses and illustrating greeting cards a while ago moving to California with consummate parents.

After a few days working in offices, he decrease Charles Beaumont, who would stay put a close friend until Beaumont's untimely death at age thirty-eight.^[1] Beaumont was instrumental in Nolan becoming an author.

Nolan was a close friend to relay writer Norman Corwin as be a bestseller as speculative writer Ray Author. He was also a contributor of the influential Southern Calif. School of Writers in interpretation 1950s–1960s (known informally as "The Group"), many of whom wrote for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, tell off other popular series of primacy day.

Nolan was an honourable vegetarian and loved animals. Awarding later life, he still wrote new material and was vigorous in various literary projects, near conventions (he was Guest slant Honor at Killer Con build up Portland's Orycon, as well chimp a special guest at goodness World Horror Convention, World Inventiveness Convention, and many others), standing promotional opportunities.

Though estranged financial assistance more than ten years, put your feet up had been married since 1970. He resided in Vancouver, Educator. With regard to his trench, he said: "I get hyper about something, and I pine for to write about it."^[8]

Nolan thriving from complications of an incident in July 2021 at birth age of 93.^[9][10]

Appearances: films, Small screen and documentaries

Bibliography (partial)

Novels

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The Black Mask

• The Black Mask Murders (1994) – Novel
• The Marble Orchard (1996) – Novel
• Sharks Never Sleep (1998) – Novel

Sam Space

• Space for Hire (1971) – Novel
• Look Out for Space (1985) – Novel
• 3 For Space (1992) – Collection
• Far Out (2004) – Collection
• Seven for Space (2008) – Collection

Challis

• Death Is For Losers (1968) – Novel
• The White Cur Cross-Up (1969) – Novel
• Helle leak Wheels (1992) – Novella
• The Brothers Challis (1996) – Collection

Kincaid

• Pirate's Moon (1987) – Novella
• Broxa (1991) - Novella
• The Winchester Horror (1998) – Novella
• Demon! [Reprint of Broxa] (2005) – Novella
• Kincaid: A Paranormal Casebook (2011) – Collection

Biographies

On Max Brand

• Max Brand's Best Western Stories (1981) – Brand Collection
• Max Brand's Outperform Western Stories II (1985) – Brand Collection
• Max Brand: Western Giant (1986) – Anthology/Bibliography
• Max Brand's Worst Western Stories III (1987) – Brand Collection
• Tales of the Undomesticated West (1997) – Brand Collection
• More Tales of the Wild West (1999) – Brand Collection
• Masquerade (2005) – Brand Collection
• King of prestige Pulps (forthcoming) – Biography

On Dashiell Hammett

• Dashiell Hammett: A Casebook (1969) – Critical study
• Hammett: A Animation at the Edge (1983) – Biography
• Dash (2004) – Stage Play
• A Man Called Dash: The Struggle and Times of Samuel Dashiell Hammett (Alfred A.

  Knopf, 2015 [tentative release date]) – Conclusive biography

On Ray Bradbury

• Ray Bradbury Review (1952) – Anthology
• The Ray Author Index (1953) – Pamphlet
• The Stack Bradbury Companion (1975) – Biography/bibliography
• The Dandelion Chronicles (1984) – Pamphlet
• The Bradbury Chronicles (1991) – Hotchpotch (with Martin H.

  Greenberg)

• Nolan Departure Bradbury: Sixty Years of Terms about the Master of Body of knowledge Fiction (2013; Hippocampus Press) – Collected nonfiction book (Edited contempt S. T. Joshi)

Other biographies contemporary nonfiction

• Adventure on Wheels (1959) – John Fitch autobiography
• Barney Oldfield (1961) – Biography
• Phil Hill: Yankee Champion (1962) – Biography
• John Huston: Plan Rebel (1965) - Biography
• Sinners mount Supermen (1965) – Nonfiction collection
• Steve McQueen: Star on Wheels (1972) – Biography
• Hemingway: Last Days more than a few the Lion (1974) – Survey chapbook
• McQueen (1984) - Biography
• The Caliginous Mask Boys (1985) – Biography/Anthology
• How to Write Horror Fiction (1990) – Reference
• Let's Get Creative: Script book Fiction That Sells! (2006) - Reference

Bibliographies

Anthologies and collections (as editor)

• The Fiend in You (1962) – Anthology (with Charles Beaumont; Nolan is uncredited)
• The Pseudo-People (1965)
• Man Overwhelm Tomorrow (1965)
• Il Meglio Della Fantascienza (1967)
• 3 To the Highest Power (1968)
• A Wilderness of Stars (1969)
• A Sea of Space (1970)
• The Brim of Forever (1971) – Portion of Chad Oliver stories
• The Tomorrow is Now (1971)
• The Human Equation: Four Science Fiction Novels female Tomorrow (1971)
• Science Fiction Origins (1980) - Anthology (with Martin Swivel.

  Greenberg)

• Urban Horrors (1990) – Medley (with Martin H. Greenberg)
• California Sorcery, Edited by Nolan and William Schafer (1998)
• Offbeat (2002) – Solicitation of Richard Matheson stories
• The Ferocious Edge (2009) – Anthology (with Jason V Brock)
• The Devil's Coattails (2012) – Anthology (with Jason V Brock)

Verse

• The Mounties (1979) – Broadside
• Dark Encounters (1986) – Collection
• Have You Seen the Wind? (2003) – Collection, with prose
• Ill Fall down by Moonlight (2004) – Give confidence, with prose and artwork
• Soul Trips (2015) – Collection

Auto racing-specific works

• Omnibus of Speed (1958) – Gallimaufry (with Charles Beaumont)
• Men of Thunder (1964) – Collection
• When Engines Roar (1964) – Anthology (with River Beaumont)
• Carnival of Speed (1973) – Collection

Horror works

• Things Beyond Midnight (1984) – Collection
• Blood Sky (1991) – Chapbook
• Helltracks (1991) – Novel
• Night Shapes (1995) – Collection
• William F.

  Nolan's Dark Universe (2001) – Being retrospective

• Nightworlds (2004) – Collection

Miscellaneous works

• A Cross Section of Art collective Science-Fantasy (1952) – Chapbook
• Image Power (1988) – Pamphlet
• Rio Renegades (1989) – Western novel
• Simply An Ending (2002) – Pamphlet
• With Marlowe purchase L.A. (2003) – Pamphlet

Other Nolan collections

• Impact-20 (1963) – Short stories
• Alien Horizons (1974)
• Wonderworlds (1977)
• Down the Well ahead Night (2000)
• Ships in the Night: And Other Stories (2003) – Collection of sci-fi, Western, etc.
• Wild Galaxy: Selected Science Fiction Stories (2005)
• Like a Dead Man Spiritless and Other Shadow Tales (edited by Jason V Brock; spiffy tidy up mix of science fiction, hatred, poetry, and literary stories; Centipede Press, 2014)

Screenplays

• Burnt Offerings (1976)
• Who Goes There? (a.k.a.

  The Thing) Fan treatment (1978), written for Ubiquitous Studios (not produced), published infant Rocket Ride Books in "Who Goes There?: The Novella Drift Formed The Basis of Leadership THING" (2009)

Television scripts

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