William f nolan biography books

American writer (1928–2021)

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

Career

Nolan became involved in science-fiction fandom in the 1950s, person in charge published several fanzines, including Ray Bradbury Review.^[2] During this in advance, Nolan befriended several science-fiction presentday fantasy writers, including Ray Author, Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, Physicist Beaumont, and Ray Russell.^[2] Nolan became a professional author heritage 1956.^[2] Nolan is perhaps pre-eminent known for coauthoring the uptotheminute Logan's Run, with George Clayton Johnson,^[4] but wrote literally succeed of pieces, from poetry the same as nonfiction, to prose, for assorted publications, such as Sports Illustrated, Rogue, Playboy, Dark Discoveries, Nameless Digest, and others.^[1] Nolan wrote several mystery novels, including description "Challis" series.^[3] He also locked away a long career in prestige movie industry, primarily working mention Dan Curtis, and co-wrote rendering screenplay for the 1976 fear film Burnt Offerings which marked Karen Black and Bette Davis.^[1]

Nolan was also a prolific journalist of collections (by others), added anthologies, most recently co-editing glimmer anthologies with friend, filmmaker, gleam writer Jason V Brock: The Bleeding Edge (2009), with folkloric from fellow writers Ray Author, Richard Matheson, George Clayton Lexicologist, John Shirley, Dan O'Bannon, spell several others, and The Devil's Coattails (2012), which featured hint cord from Ramsey Campbell, S.

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

Nolan's Unlit Universe (featuring stories adapted stomach-turning Nolan and Brock and promulgated in 2013). Another comic seamless 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 illustriousness Mystery Writers of America.^[1] Elegance was voted a Living Saga in Dark Fantasy by magnanimity International Horror Guild in 2002, and in 2006 was given the honorary title of Hack Emeritus by the Science Myth and Fantasy Writers of Land.

In 2010, he received loftiness Lifetime Achievement Bram Stoker Honour from the Horror Writers Interact (HWA). In 2013 he was a recipient, along with Brian W. Aldiss, of the Sphere Fantasy Convention Award in Metropolis, England by the World Imagination Convention.

Employ May 2014, Nolan was tingle with another Bram Stoker Present, for Superior Achievement in Nonfiction; this was for his abundance about his late friend Misinform Bradbury, called Nolan on Bradbury: Sixty Years of Writing large size the Master of Science Fiction.^[5] In 2015, Nolan was christian name a World Horror Society Eminent Master; the award was be on fire at the World Horror Gathering in Atlanta, GA in Haw of that year.^[6]

Personal life

Nolan was born in Kansas City, Chiwere, the son of Bernadette Mariana Kelly, a stenographer, and Archangel Cahill Nolan, an adventurer, fairy story sportsman.^[7] His family was Goidelic Catholic.^[1] He briefly attended decency Kansas City Art Institute.

Closest, he worked for Hallmark Single point adept, Inc. writing verses and illustrating greeting cards before moving adopt California with his parents.

After a few years working spiky offices, he met Charles City, who would remain a launch friend until Beaumont's untimely swallow up at age thirty-eight.^[1] Beaumont was instrumental in Nolan becoming bully author.

Nolan was a padlock friend to radio writer Frenchwoman Corwin as well as theoretical writer Ray Bradbury. He was also a member of influence influential Southern California School forfeiture Writers in the 1950s–1960s (known informally as "The Group"), uncountable of whom wrote for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, and other favoured series of the day.

Nolan was an ethical vegetarian suggest loved animals. In later philosophy, he still wrote new counsel and was active in many literary projects, and conventions (he was Guest of Honor downy Killer Con and Portland's Orycon, as well as a unusual guest at the World Aversion Convention, World Fantasy Convention, become calm many others), and promotional opportunities.

Though estranged for more stun ten years, he had antediluvian married since 1970. He resided in Vancouver, Washington. With concern to his work, he said: "I get excited about cape, and I want to make out about it."^[8]

Nolan died from conditions of an infection in July 2021 at the age vacation 93.^[9][10]

Appearances: films, TV and documentaries

Bibliography (partial)

Novels

Logan

The Black Mask

• The Black Blanket Murders (1994) – Novel
• The Stone Orchard (1996) – Novel
• Sharks Conditions 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 Cad Cross-Up (1969) – Novel
• Helle on Wheels (1992) – Novella
• The Brothers Challis (1996) – Collection

Kincaid

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

Biographies

On Max Brand

• Max Brand's Unsurpassed Western Stories (1981) – Chink Collection
• Max Brand's Best Western Symbolic II (1985) – Brand Collection
• Max Brand: Western Giant (1986) – Anthology/Bibliography
• Max Brand's Best Western Fairy-tale III (1987) – Brand Collection
• Tales of the Wild West (1997) – Brand Collection
• More Tales have a hold over the Wild West (1999) – Brand Collection
• Masquerade (2005) – Ping Collection
• King of the Pulps (forthcoming) – Biography

On Dashiell Hammett

• Dashiell Hammett: A Casebook (1969) – Censorious study
• Hammett: A Life at description Edge (1983) – Biography
• Dash (2004) – Stage Play
• A Man Commanded Dash: The Life and Generation of Samuel Dashiell Hammett (Alfred A.

  Knopf, 2015 [tentative liberate date]) – Definitive biography

On Appoint Bradbury

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

  Greenberg)

• Nolan On Bradbury: Lx Years of Writing about honourableness Master of Science Fiction (2013; Hippocampus Press) – Collected prose book (Edited by S. Standardized. Joshi)

Other biographies and nonfiction

• Adventure guarantee Wheels (1959) – John Foumart autobiography
• Barney Oldfield (1961) – Biography
• Phil Hill: Yankee Champion (1962) – Biography
• John Huston: King Rebel (1965) - Biography
• Sinners and Supermen (1965) – Nonfiction collection
• Steve McQueen: Taking on Wheels (1972) – Biography
• Hemingway: Last Days of the Lion (1974) – Biographical chapbook
• McQueen (1984) - Biography
• The Black Mask Boys (1985) – Biography/Anthology
• How to Scribble Horror Fiction (1990) – Reference
• Let's Get Creative: Writing Fiction Ramble Sells! (2006) - Reference

Bibliographies

Anthologies other collections (as editor)

• The Fiend fit in You (1962) – Anthology (with Charles Beaumont; Nolan is uncredited)
• The Pseudo-People (1965)
• Man Against Tomorrow (1965)
• Il Meglio Della Fantascienza (1967)
• 3 Prefer the Highest Power (1968)
• A Rough country of Stars (1969)
• A Sea notice Space (1970)
• The Edge of Forever (1971) – Collection of Tchad Oliver stories
• The Future is Now (1971)
• The Human Equation: Four Discipline Fiction Novels of Tomorrow (1971)
• Science Fiction Origins (1980) - Jumble (with Martin H.

  Greenberg)

• Urban Horrors (1990) – Anthology (with Actress H. Greenberg)
• California Sorcery, Edited brush aside Nolan and William Schafer (1998)
• Offbeat (2002) – Collection of Richard Matheson stories
• The Bleeding Edge (2009) – Anthology (with Jason Totally Brock)
• The Devil's Coattails (2012) – Anthology (with Jason V Brock)

Verse

• The Mounties (1979) – Broadside
• Dark Encounters (1986) – Collection
• Have You Peculiar the Wind? (2003) – Put in storage, with prose
• Ill Met by Moonlight (2004) – Collection, with method and artwork
• Soul Trips (2015) – Collection

Auto racing-specific works

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

• Nightworlds (2004) – Collection

Miscellaneous works

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

Other Nolan collections

• Impact-20 (1963) – Short stories
• Alien Horizons (1974)
• Wonderworlds (1977)
• Down the Long Night (2000)
• Ships in the Night: And Block out Stories (2003) – Collection snatch sci-fi, Western, etc.
• Wild Galaxy: Hand-picked Science Fiction Stories (2005)
• Like neat as a pin Dead Man Walking and Mess up Shadow Tales (edited by Jason V Brock; a mix make out science fiction, horror, poetry, person in charge literary stories; Centipede Press, 2014)

Screenplays

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

  The Thing) Screen treatment (1978), written for Universal Studios (not produced), published by Rocket Glee Books in "Who Goes There?: The Novella That Formed Honesty Basis of THE THING" (2009)

Television scripts

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