Richard Matheson (1926–2013)
Auteur van I Am Legend {story collection}
Over de Auteur
Richard Matheson was born on February 20, 1926 in Allendale, New Jersey. He was eight when his stories appeared in a local newspaper, the Brooklyn Eagle. He served during World War II. He received a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1949. In 1950 he first was noticed as an toon meer upcoming writer-to-watch, starting with the short story Born of Man and Woman. He wrote numerous novels and short stories during his lifetime including I am Legend, The Shrinking Man, What Dreams May Come, and Hell House. He won the World Fantasy Convention's Life Achievement Award, the Bram Stoker Award for Life Achievement, the Hugo Award, the Golden Spur Award, and the Writer's Guild Award. He also was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2010. When Hollywood approached him for the rights to his novel The Shrinking Man, he negotiated the chance to write the screenplay. This began a long career in screenwriting and adapting. He wrote the screenplay for Steven Spielberg's Duel and 16 episodes of the television series The Twilight Zone. He won an Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1973 for The Night Stalker. He died on June 23, 2013 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Ontwarringsbericht:
(eng) Richard Matheson is not the same person as his son, Richard Christian Matheson.
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Werken van Richard Matheson
Richard Matheson Thrillers: I Am Legend, Someone is Bleeding, Ride the Nightmare, Fury on Sunday (2017) 8 exemplaren
Prey 7 exemplaren
Visions of Death: Richard Matheson's Edgar Allan Poe Scripts (House of Usher & Pit and the Pendulum) (1894) 6 exemplaren
Dance of the Dead 6 exemplaren
The Funeral 6 exemplaren
Richard Matheson Suspense Novels : The Shrinking Man, Camp Pleasant, Hunger and Thirst, 7 Steps to Midnight (2020) 6 exemplaren
Witch War 5 exemplaren
Dress of White Silk 5 exemplaren
Duel [short story] 5 exemplaren
El increíble hombre meguante 5 exemplaren
The Distributor [short story] 4 exemplaren
The Near Departed 3 exemplaren
Mad House 3 exemplaren
Buried Talents 3 exemplaren
Drink My Blood [short story] 3 exemplaren
Gigamesh 42 3 exemplaren
Halfwas helden rond Bastogne roman 3 exemplaren
I vampiri-Tre millimetri al giorno-Io sono Helen Driscoll-Regola per sopravvivere (1991) 3 exemplaren
Hinter dem Horizont 3 exemplaren
He Wanted to Live 3 exemplaren
Shoo Fly [short story] 3 exemplaren
The Box (2009) 3 exemplaren
1984 1/2 3 exemplaren
A Caixa 2 exemplaren
Hell House 2 exemplaren
Em algum lugar do passado 2 exemplaren
The Shores Of Space Thirteen Spine-Tingling storie 2 exemplaren
The Window Of Time 2 exemplaren
Shock Wave [short story] 2 exemplaren
Short Story Collection Volume I 2 exemplaren
Eerste verjaardag 2 exemplaren
Where There's a Will 2 exemplaren
Man with a Club 2 exemplaren
Purge Among Peanuts 2 exemplaren
"The Last Blah in the Etc." Chapbook 2 exemplaren
A Splendid Source [short story] 2 exemplaren
The Likeness of Julie 2 exemplaren
Two O'clock Session 2 exemplaren
Shipshape Home 1 exemplaar
Deadline [short fiction] 1 exemplaar
A Casa Infernal 1 exemplaar
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Sorry, Right Number 1 exemplaar
The Foodlegger (short story) 1 exemplaar
Lemmings 1 exemplaar
Classici Urania 002 - REGOLA PER SOPRAVVIVERE 1 exemplaar
Professor Fitz and the Runaway House 1 exemplaar
Matheson Richard 1 exemplaar
Undeva, candva 1 exemplaar
Lover When You’re Near Me 1 exemplaar
The Twilight Zone: Death Ship the Television Script (Twilight Zone (Harvest Moon)) (2000) 1 exemplaar
Varulven — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
Brother To The Machine [short story] 1 exemplaar
Third From The Sun [short story] 1 exemplaar
Der Omega Mann 1 exemplaar
Counterfeit Bill 1 exemplaar
Les enfants de Noé 1 exemplaar
Nat stro 1 exemplaar
SHOCK! (1) (i) One; SHOCK (2) (ii) Two; SHOCK (3) (iii) Three; SHOCK WAVES: The Children of Noah; Lemmings; The… (1961) 1 exemplaar
Duell 1 exemplaar
Mundo dos Vampiros 1 exemplaar
Pattern for Survival [short story] 1 exemplaar
Fantastic #4 Jan/Feb '53 featuring Mad House 1 exemplaar
The Creeping Terror [short story] 1 exemplaar
Clothes Make the Man [short story] 1 exemplaar
The Jazz Machine [short story] 1 exemplaar
’Tis the Season to Be Jelly [short story] 1 exemplaar
When the Waker Sleeps 1 exemplaar
Dying Room Only [short story] 1 exemplaar
The Test [short story] 1 exemplaar
Blood Son 1 exemplaar
Trespass [novelette] 1 exemplaar
When Day Is Dun [short story] 1 exemplaar
The Curious Child [short story] 1 exemplaar
Person To Person 1 exemplaar
From Shadowed Places 1 exemplaar
The Last Day [short story] 1 exemplaar
Little Girl Lost [short story] 1 exemplaar
The Doll That Does Everything [short story] 1 exemplaar
A Flourish of Strumpets [short story] 1 exemplaar
Born of Man and Woman (abridged) 1 exemplaar
Autograph, (Horror Writer), S. 3x5 1 exemplaar
A Richard Matheson Collection: Hell House, Somewhere in Time, What Dreams May Come (2019) 1 exemplaar
Millemondi Autunno 2001: Shock - Seconda Parte 1 exemplaar
Legion Of Plotters 1 exemplaar
Eliminazione lenta 1 exemplaar
Button, Button [short story] 1 exemplaar
Girl of My Dreams [short story] 1 exemplaar
Old Haunts 1 exemplaar
The Holiday Man 1 exemplaar
The Children of Noah 1 exemplaar
Wet Straw 1 exemplaar
Long Distance Call 1 exemplaar
Finger prints [short story] 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Ռիչարդ Մեթսոն
- Officiële naam
- Matheson, Richard Burton
- Geboortedatum
- 1926-02-20
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2013-06-23
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Allendale, New Jersey, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Calabasas, California, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- New York, New York, USA
California, USA - Opleiding
- University of Missouri (BA ∙ journalism ∙ 1949)
- Beroepen
- novelist
short-story writer
screenwriter - Relaties
- Matheson, Richard Christian (son)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Bram Stoker Award (Lifetime Achievement, 1990)
International Horror Guild Living Legend (1999)
World Horror Convention Grand Master Award (1993)
SF Hall Of Fame (2010) - Ontwarringsbericht
- Richard Matheson is not the same person as his son, Richard Christian Matheson.
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I Am Legend - Smeared Ink Chapter headings . . . is it planned, or a printing error? in Folio Society Devotees (december 2022)
What's your Opinion of Richard Matheson? in Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night (januari 2011)
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