Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination

Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination

<p>Long before anyone had heard of alien cookbooks, gremlins on the wings of airplanes, or places where pig-faced people are considered beautiful, Rod Serling was the most prestigious writer in American television. As creator, host, and primary writer for <i>The Twilight Zone</i>, Serling became something more: an American icon. When Serling died in 1975, at the age of fifty, he was the most honored, most outspoken, most recognizable, and likely the most prolific writer in television history.</p><p> Though best known for <i>The Twilight Zone</i>, Serling wrote over 250 scripts for film and television and won an unmatched six Emmy Awards for dramatic writing for four different series. His filmography includes the acclaimed political thriller <i>Seven Days in May</i> and cowriting the original <i>Planet of the Apes</i>.</p><p> In great detail and including never-published insights drawn directly from Serling’s personal correspondence, unpublished writings, speeches, and unproduced scripts, Nicholas Parisi explores Serling’s entire, massive body of work. With a foreword by Serling’s daughter, Anne Serling, <i>Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination</i> is part biography, part videography, and part critical analysis. It is a painstakingly researched look at <i>all</i> of Serling’s work―in and out of<i> The Twilight Zone.</i></p>