Jerome Bixby

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia   Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby January 11 1923 in Los Angeles California April 28 1998 in San Bernardino California 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 for one collaboration with Algis Budrys He is most famous for the 1953 story Its a Good Life which was the basis for a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone and which was included in Twilight Zone The Movie 1983 He also wrote four episodes for the Star Trek series Mirror Mirror Day of the Dove Requiem for Methuselah and By Any Other Name With Otto Klement he cowrote the story upon which the classic scifi movie Fantastic Voyage 1966 television series and novel by Isaac Asimov were based Description above from the Wikipedia article Jerome Bixby licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia