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Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby (January 11, 1923 – April 28, 1998) was an American short story writer and scriptwriter. He wrote the 1953 story "It's a Good Life", which was included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame. It formed the basis of a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone and was remade in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983).
It’s A Good. Life. af Jerome Bixby. Aunt Amy was out on the front porch, rocking back and forth in the highbacked chair and fan-ning herself, when Bill Soames rode his bicycle up the road and stopped in front of the house.
Oct 16, 2012 · Jerome Bixby (1923 — 1998) was an American short story and script writer who wrote four Star Trek episodes and helped write the story that became the classic sci-fi movie Fantastic Voyage (1966). He is most famous for the “It’s a Good Life” (1953), also made into a Twilight Zone episode and included in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983).
Bixby, Jerome. Entry updated 26 December 2022. Tagged: Author, Editor. (1923-1998) US author and editor; an extremely prolific story-writer; he produced not only a respectable number of sf, fantasy, horror and western stories, but also contributed large quantities of somewhat salacious stories to men's magazines of the 1960s, which have so far ...
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Drexel Jerome "Jerry" Lewis Bixby (11 January 1923 – 28 April 1998; age 75) was an American science fiction writer. He wrote the four Star Trek: The Original Series episodes "Mirror, Mirror", "By Any Other Name", "Day of the Dove", and "Requiem for Methuselah". The first of these garnered him a 1968 Hugo Award nomination in the category "Best Dramatic Presentation", which he shared with the director of the episode, Marc Daniels.
Apart from his Star Trek work, Bixby is most famous for the short story "It's a Good Life", which was adapted into a memorable episode of The Twilight Zone. The episode starred Bill Mumy as the boy, and featured Don Keefer. He also wrote the original story for the 1966 science fiction classic Fantastic Voyage (featuring a music score by Leonard Rosenman), that earned him his one year earlier Hugo Award nomination in the same category.
Jerome Bixby's last great work, was a screenplay The Man from Earth. Inspired by the Romanian legends of Krim Rosu, it was conceived in the early 1960s and was completed on his death bed in April of 1998. Much like the Star Trek episode "Requiem for Methuselah", The Man From Earth deals with the subject of immortality. In 2007, Jerome Bixby's Man From Earth (alternate title) was turned into an independent motion picture executive produced by his son Emerson Bixby, directed by Richard Schenkman and starring David Lee Smith, William Katt, Richard Riehle, Tony Todd, Annika Peterson, Alexis Thorpe, Ellen Crawford, and John Billingsley.
The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Emperor's New Cloak", the first episode after his death to return to the mirror universe he created, was dedicated to Bixby's memory.
•"Jerome Bixby, Fantastic Voyages", Pat Jankiewicz, Starlog, issue 164, March 1991, pp. 43-48, 70
•"Writer Jerry Bixby", Dennis Fischer, Cinefantastique, Vol 27 #11, 1996, pp. 54-55
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"It's a Good Life" is a short story by American writer Jerome Bixby, written in 1953. In 1970, the Science Fiction Writers of America selected it for The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, as one of the 20 best short stories in science fiction published prior to the Nebula Award.
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Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby (1923–1998) was an American short story writer, editor and scriptwriter, best known for his work in science fiction. He also wrote many westerns and used the pseudonyms D. B. Lewis, Harry Neal, Albert Russell, J. Russell, M. St. Vivant, Thornecliff Herrick and Alger Rome.
