Richard Matheson
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| Born | Richard Burton Matheson February 20, 1926 Allendale, New Jersey, United States |
| Died | June 23, 2013 (aged 87) Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Pen name | Logan Swanson |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter |
| Alma mater | University of Missouri |
| Period | 1950–2013 |
| Genre | Science fiction, fantasy, horror |
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| Notable awards | World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, Science Fiction Hall of Fame (2010) |
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Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is best known as the author of I Am Legend, a 1954 horror novel that has been adapted for the screen four times, as well as the movie Somewhere In Time for which Matheson wrote the screenplay, based on his novel Bid Time Return. Matheson also wrote 16 television episodes of The Twilight Zone for Rod Serling, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and "Steel".
He adapted his 1971 short story "Duel" as a screenplay directed by a young Steven Spielberg, for the television movie of the same name that year.
Six more of his novels or short stories have been adapted as major motion pictures: The Shrinking Man, Hell House, What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return (filmed as Somewhere in Time), A Stir of Echoes and Button, Button. Lesser movies based on his work include two from his early noir novels—Cold Sweat, based on his novel Riding the Nightmare, and Les seins de glace (Icy Breasts) based on his novel Someone is Bleeding.
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