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HARDCOVER Acceptable-This is a significantly damaged book. It should be considered a reading copy only. Please order this book only if you are interested in the content and not the condition. May be ex-library. Standard-sized.

A fine, fresh, unread as-new copy in equally fine dust jacket. First printing

A fine, fresh, unread as-new copy in equally fine dust jacket. First printing stated. Hardcover. xiv+ 541 pp. Illustrated with photos and reproductions. Introduction by Anne Serling (daughter of Rod Serling). The definitive biography as well a videography and critical analysis, of American screenwriter and television producer Rod Serling (1924-1975). Serling was a native of Syracuse, New York, served in the Army World War II in the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment (as a technician not a jumper though his Division saw combat and Serling was wounded in Leyte), and after the war attended Antioch College in Ohio on the G. I, Bill. At Antioch he began writing and producing campus radio programs and in the summer of 1946 volunteered at New York City's WNYC as an actor and writer. He began his professional writing career in 1950 and moved from radio to television writing with WKRC-TV in Cincinnati. He began to gain fame when in 1955 the nationwide-broadcast Kraft Television Theater televised one of his scripts. He became best known for his TV series "The Twilight Zone" that ran from 1959 to 1964 and the 156 episodes continue in reruns today, a number of the episodes now considered iconic. The science fiction/fantasy format helped the show avoid censorship issues.