Harlan Jay Ellison was born May 27, 1934, in Cleveland, Ohio, younger of two children of Louis Ellison and Serita Rosenthal. Harlan ran away from home at 13 to join a carnival, and over the next half dozen years worked as a logger, a tuna fisherman, an actor, a floor walker in a department store and even a dynamite-truck driver. Attended Ohio State University for a year and a half. He departed suddenly after punching a professor who said he had no talent. Harlan moved to New York and, at age 21, joined a youth street gang in Brooklyn's dangerous Red Hook neighborhood to gather material for his book "Memos From Purgatory".

Harlan Ellison has been called "one of the greatest living American short story writers" by the Washington Post. His two books of tv essays, The Glass Teat and The Other Glass Teat, have sold millions of copies and are currently being taught in media classes in more than 200 American universities.His Dangerous Visions have earned him a reputation as a top-notch editor and anthologist.

Harlan has traveled with rock groups such as The Rolling Stones, and his novel of that scene, Spider Kiss, was hailed by music critic Greil Marcus as "...the finest novel about the world of rock in the past quarter century."

To promote the art of writing, Ellsion has taken to creating short stories in the windows of bookstores in Boston, London, New York and New Orleans. Harlan has often been compared to the Argentine writer Jorge Borges who is also one of his greatest inspirations. His pointed essays in the L.A. Weekly earned him the prestigious Silver Pen for Journalism by the international writers' union. Perhaps this is one reason why the Los Angeles Times said "It's long past time for Harlan Ellison to be awarded the title: 20th century Lewis Carroll."

His 40 year career has given us more than 69 books, 1700 stories and essays, 24 teleplays and 12 screenplays. His works have been translated into 26 languages and have sold millions of copies. Prolific and perceptive, he has been awarded an astonishing 8½ Hugo Awards, 3 Nebula Awards and 2 Edgar Allan Poe Awards. Among his most recognized works are Strange Wine, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, and Stalking the Nightmare.

In 1993, he received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. Harlan has served as creative consultant on the revival of the series The Twilight Zone and presently as creative consultant for Babylon 5.

In January 2001, Harlan signed to develop his award-winning Outer Limits script, DEMON WITH A GLASS HAND, for Miramax’s Dimension Films as a theatrical feature. He is working with director David Twohy. Other works currently in the pipeline for film and TV include: “Along the Scenic Route,” optioned by Paramount Pictures.

To celebrate the golden anniversary of Harlan Ellison’s half a century of storytelling, Morpheus International, publishers of THE ESSENTIAL ELLISON: A 35-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE, commissioned the book’s primary editor, award-winning Australian writer and critic Terry Dowling, to expand Ellison’s three-and-a-half decade collection into a 50-year retrospective. Mr. Dowling went through fifteen years of new stories and essays to pick what he thought were the most representative to be included in this 1000+ page collection. Along with THE ESSENTIAL ELLISON: A 50-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE (Morpheus International), Harlan’s first Young Adult collection, TROUBLEMAKERS: STORIES BY HARLAN ELLISON, is currently available in bookstores.

And as Tom Snyder said on the CBS Late, Late Show: “An amazing talent; meeting him is an incredible experience.”

Awards Nebula Best Short story nominee (1965) : "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman Nebula Best Short story winner (1965) : "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman Hugo Best Short story winner (1966) : "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1967) : Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes Hugo Best Short story nominee (1967) : Delusion for a Dragon Slayer Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1968) : Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes Hugo Best Short story winner (1968) : I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream Nebula Best Short story nominee (1969) : Shattered Like a Glass Goblin Hugo Best Short story winner (1969) : The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World Nebula Best Novella nominee (1970) : The Region Between Hugo Best Novella nominee (1970) : A Boy and His Dog Hugo Best Novella nominee (1971) : The Region Between Hugo Best Short story nominee (1971) : Brillo Nebula Best Short story nominee (1972) : On the Downhill Side Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1972) : Basilisk Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1973) : The Deathbird Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1973) : Basilisk Hugo Best Novellette winner (1974) : The Deathbird Nebula Best Short story nominee (1975) : Shatterday Hugo Best Novellette winner (1975) : Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W Hugo Best Short story nominee (1976) : Croatoan World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1976) : Deathbird Stories Nebula Best Short story winner (1977) : Jeffty is Five World Fantasy Best Short story nominee (1978) : Jeffty is Five Hugo Best Short story winner (1978) : Jeffty is Five Hugo Best Short story nominee(1979) : Count the Clock That Tells the Time Hugo Best Novella nominee (1981) : All the Lies That Are My Life World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1981) : Shatterday Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1985) : Paladin of the Lost Hour Hugo Best Novellette winner (1986) : Paladin of the Lost Hour Bram Stoker Best Collection winner (1987) : The Essential Ellison: A 35 Year Retrospective Bram Stoker Best Novellette nominee (1988) : The Function of Dream Sleep Bram Stoker Best Collection nominee (1988) : Angry Candy Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1989) : The Function of Dream Sleep World Fantasy Best Collection winner (1989) : Angry Candy World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1990) : Harlan Ellison's Watching Bram Stoker Best Novella nominee (1993) : Mefisto In Onyx Nebula Best Short story nominee (1993) : The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement winner (1993) World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1994) : Mefisto In Onyx Hugo Best Novella nominee (1994) : Mefisto In Onyx Nebula Best Novella nominee (1994) : Mefisto In Onyx Bram Stoker Best Short story winner (1995) : Chatting with Anubis Collections The Deadly Streets (1958) Gentleman Junkie: And Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation (1961) Ellison Wonderland (1962) Paingod and Other Delusions (1965) From the Land of Fear (1967) Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled (1968) The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1969) Over the Edge (1970) All the Sounds of Fear (1971) The Time of the Eye (1971) Approaching Oblivion (1974) Deathbird Stories (1975) No Doors, No Windows (1975) The Voice From the Edge: Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral (Audio) (1975) Edgeworks (1976) The Illustrated Harlan Ellison (1978) Strange Wine (1978) The Fantasies of Harlan Ellison (1979) Edgeworks 2 (1980) Shatterday (1980) Stalking the Nightmare (1982) The Essential Ellison: A 35 Year Retrospective (1985) Mefisto in Onyx (1987) Angry Candy (1988) Footsteps (1988) Harlan Ellison's Watching (1988) Slippage (1988) Dreams with Sharp Teeth: A Three-Volume Omnibus (1989) Edgeworks 5 (1989) Mind Fields: The Art of Jacek Yerka, the Fiction of Harlan Ellison (1989) I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1995) Edgeworks 3 (1996) Edgeworks 4 (1997) The Essential Ellison: A 50 Year Retrospective (1998) Edgeworks 6 (1999) Troublemakers (2001) Novels Web of the City (1958) The Man with Nine Lives (1959) A Touch of Infinity (1959) The Juvies (1961) Spider Kiss (1961) Earthman, Go Home! (1964) Doomsman (1967) I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (1967) Alone Against Tomorrow (1971) Phoenix without Ashes (1975) (with Edward Bryant) City on the Edge of Forever (1977) Night and the Enemy (1987) Vic and Blood (1988) (with Richard Corben) All the Lies That Are My Life (1989) Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor (1995) Short Stories Blind Lightning (1956) The Crackpots (1956) Gnomebody (1956) Hadj (1956) Life Hutch (1956) Nedra at f:5.6 (1956) Rain, Rain, Go Away (1956) The Silver Corridor (1956) Tracking Level (1956) White Trash Don't Exist (1956) Blank... (1957) Commuter's Problem (1957) Deeper Than the Darkness (1957) Final Trophy (1957) Invasion Footnote (1957) Night Vigil (1957) Opposites Attract (1957) Ormond Always Pays His Bills (1957) Passport (1957) Run for the Stars (1957) S.R.O. (1957) Shadow Play (1957) Soldier (1957) Thicker than Blood (1957) Tiny Ally (1957) Toe the Line (1957) Transcending Destiny (1957) Wanted in Surgery (1957) 'We Mourn for Anyone...' (1957) Wonderbird (1957) (with Algis Budrys) Are You Listening? (1958) Back to the Drawing Boards (1958) Battlefield (1958) Big Sam was My Friend (1958) The Children's Hour (1958) The End of the Time of Leinard (1958) In Lonely Lands (1958) Mealtime (1958) My Brother Paulie (1958) Nothing for My Noon Meal (1958) The Sky is Burning (1958) Status Quo at Troyden's (1958) The Very Last Day of a Good Woman (1958) The Wind Beyond the Mountains (1958) The Discarded (1959) Eyes of Dust (1959) A Friend to Man (1959) Survivor 1 (1959) (with Henry Slesar) The Time of the Eye (1959) Visionary (1959) (with Joe L Hensley) Deal from the Bottom (1960) The Face of Helene Bournoup (1960) Daniel White for the Greater Good (1961) Do-It-Yourself (1961) Enter the Fanatic, Stage Center (1961) Riding the Dark Train Out (1961) All the Sounds of Fear (1962) G.B.K. - A Many Flavored Bird (1962) Mona at Her Windows (1962) A Path Through the Darkness (1962) Paulie Charmed the Sleeping Woman (1962) Rodney Parish For Hire (1962) (with Joe L Hensley) The Universe of Robert Blake (1962) Blind Bird, Blind Bird, Go Away from Me! (1963) The Man on the Juice Wagon (1963) Battle Without Banners (1964) Lonelyache (1964) Neither Your Jenny Nor Mine (1964) Paingod (1964) Walk the High Steel (1964) What I Did on My Vacation This Summer, By Little Bobby Hirschhorn, Age 27 (1964) World of the Myth (1964) Bright Eyes (1965) "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman (1965) Two Inches in Tomorrow's Column (1965) Up Christopher to Madness (1965) (with Avram Davidson) Delusion for a Dragon Slayer (1966) A Prayer for No One's Enemy (1966) Pride in the Profession (1966) Punky and the Yale Man (1966) Down in the Dark (1967) The Goddess in the Ice (1967) I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967) Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes (1967) The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World (1967) The Voice in the Garden (1967) Would You Do It for a Penny? (1967) (with Haskell Barkin) Asleep: With Still Hands (1968) The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1968) Ernest and the Machine God (1968) I See a Man Sitting on a Chair, and the Chair is Biting His Leg (1968) (with Robert Sheckley) O Ye of Little Faith (1968) The Pitll Pawob Division (1968) The Power of the Nail (1968) (with Samuel R Delany) The Resurgence of Miss Ankle-Strap Wedgie (1968) Santa Claus vs S.P.I.D.E.R. (1968) Shattered Like a Glass Goblin (1968) The Sleeper with Still Hands (1968) Street Scene (1968) (with Keith Laumer) !!!The!!Teddy!Crazy!!Show!!! (1968) Try a Dull Knife (1968) White on White (1968) Worlds to Kill (1968) Along the Scenic Route (1969) A Boy and His Dog (1969) Come to Me Not In Winter's White (1969) (with Roger Zelazny) The Kong Papers (1969) (with William Rotsler) Pennies, Off a Dead Man's Eyes (1969) Phoenix (1969) The Place with No Name (1969) Promises of Laughter (1969) Rock God (1969) Brillo (1970) (with Ben Bova) The Human Operators (1970) (with A E van Vogt) One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty (1970) The Region Between (1970) Runesmith (1970) (with Theodore Sturgeon) The Song the Zombie Sang (1970) (with Robert Silverberg) At the Mouse Circus (1971) Erotophobia (1971) Silent in Gehenna (1971) Basilisk (1972) Corpse (1972) Kiss of Fire (1972) On the Downhill Side (1972) Valerie (1972) Bleeding Stones (1973) Cold Friend (1973) The Deathbird (1973) Hindsight: 480 Seconds (1973) Neon (1973) The Whimper of Whipped Dogs (1973) Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W (1974) Catman (1974) Ecowareness (1974) I'm Looking for Kadak (1974) Knox (1974) Sleeping Dogs (1974) The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (1975) Croatoan (1975) Eddie, You're My Friend (1975) In Fear of K (1975) The New York Review of Bird (1975) Shatterday (1975) Tired Old Man (1975) From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet (1976) I Curse the Lesson and Bless the Knowledge (1976) Killing Bernstein (1976) L is for Loup-Garou (1976) Lonely Women Are the Vessels of Time (1976) Mom (1976) Seeing (1976) Strange Wine (1976) When I was a Hired Gun (1976) The Wine Has Been Left Open Too Long and the Memory Has Gone Flat (1976) Z is for Zombie (1976) Alive and Well and on a Friendless Voyage (1977) The Diagnosis of Dr D'arqueangel (1977) Emissary from Hamelin (1977) Flop Sweat (1977) Hitler Painted Roses (1977) How's the Night Life on Cissalda (1977) Jeffty is Five (1977) Opium (1977) The Other Eye of Polyphemus (1977) Shoppe Keeper (1977) Working with the Little People (1977) All the Birds Come Home to Roost (1978) Count the Clock That Tells the Time (1978) The Executioner of Malformed Children (1978) The Man Who was Heavily into Revenge (1978) In the Fourth Year of the War (1979) All the Lies That Are My Life (1980) Footsteps (1980) The Cheese Stands Alone (1981) Grail (1981) Night of Black Glass (1981) On the Slab (1981) The Outpost Undiscovered By Tourists (1981) Djinn, No Chaser (1982) Gopher in the Gilly (1982) The Hour That Stretches (1982) Laugh Track (1984) Paladin of the Lost Hour (1984) Soft Monkey (1987) The Function of Dream Sleep (1988) She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother (1988) The Avenger of Death (1989) The Harlan Ellison Hornbook (1990) Jane Doe #112 (1990) Harlan Ellison's Movie (1991) The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore (1991) Where I Shall Dwell in the Next World (1992) Mefisto In Onyx (1993) Susan (1993) Fever (1994) The Pale Silver Dollar of the Moon Pays Its Way and Makes Change (1994) Sensible City (1994) Chatting with Anubis (1995) From a Great Height (1996) Anywhere But Here, With Anybody But You (1997) Crazy As a Soup Sandwich (1997) Darkness Upon the Face of the Deep (1997) The Dragon on the Bookshelf (1997) The Dreams a Nightmare Dreams (1997) The Few, the Proud (1997) Go Toward the Light (1997) Jane Doe No. 112 (1997) Keyboard (1997) The Lingering Scent of Woodsmoke (1997) Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral (1997) Moonlighting (1997) The Museum on Cyclops Avenue (1997) Pulling Hard Time (1997) Scartaris, June 28th (1997) Objects of Desire in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (1999) A Lot of Saucers (2000) Django Moth on the Moon The One Word People Snake in the Mind