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Harlan Ellison was recently described in the New York Times Book Review as a man who possesses “all the charms of a great storyteller, in addition to his encyclopedic knowledge.” The Los Angeles Times stated, “It is high time to call Harlan Ellison the Lewis Carroll of the 20th century.” And the Washington Post Book World stated, “One of the great living American short stories.”

He has written or edited 74 books; more than 1,700 short stories, essays, and articles; a few dozen television plays, for which he won the Writers Guild of America’s Television Play of the Year Award an unprecedented four times; and a dozen screenplays. Ellison has won the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America twice, the Nebula Award five times, the Hugo Award 8 1/2 times, the Silver Pen from the PEN Club, and more.

Ellison has toured with The Rolling Stones, marched with Martin Luther King from Selma to Montgomery, fought off attacks from a mob boss's son with a Remington XP100 and a bath towel around his waist, sued Paramount and ABC-TV for copyright infringement, and won $337,000. He is considered one of the most quarrelsome people to ever walk the planet. Last year's Booklist aptly put it: "One thing is certain: this man can write."