George Clayton Johnson (born July 10, 1929 in Cheyenne, Wyoming) is a science fiction writer most famous for co-writing the novel Logan's Run with William F. Nolan. He is also known for his work in television, writing screenplays for such noted series as The Twilight Zone, such as "Nothing in the Dark", "Kick the Can", and "A Game of Pool", and Star Trek, the first aired episode of the series, "The Man Trap". He also wrote the story on which the ...
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George Clayton Johnson (born July 10, 1929 in Cheyenne, Wyoming) is a science fiction writer most famous for co-writing the novel Logan's Run with William F. Nolan. He is also known for his work in television, writing screenplays for such noted series as The Twilight Zone, such as "Nothing in the Dark", "Kick the Can", and "A Game of Pool", and Star Trek, the first aired episode of the series, "The Man Trap". He also wrote the story on which the 1960 and 2001 films Ocean's Eleven were based and the novel on which the 1976 film Logan's Run was based. He was proprietor of Cafe Frankenstein.
Born in a barn, he had to repeat the sixth grade and dropped out of school entirely in the eighth. He briefly served as a telegraph operator then draftsman in the Army, enrolled at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University) under the G.I. Bill, quit to return to his travels around the U.S.A., working as an draftsman, before deciding he wanted to become a writer.
In 1960 the first story...
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