Born in Cleveland, Ohio (27.5.1934). At the age of 17 he attended Ohio State University. After a year and a half, he was forced to leave the university because of a scandal with one of the professors who said that Ellison lacked talent. Robert Silverberg, who was his peer and one-time neighbor, described Ellison as an “unsafe, fearless, extremely ambitious young man who sought to dominate any society.” (Ellison is known to have clashed at a Hollywood disco with Frank Sinatra and his bodyguards.)
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Born in Cleveland, Ohio (27.5.1934). At the age of 17 he attended Ohio State University. After a year and a half, he was forced to leave the university because of a scandal with one of the professors who said that Ellison lacked talent. Robert Silverberg, who was his peer and one-time neighbor, described Ellison as an “unsafe, fearless, extremely ambitious young man who sought to dominate any society.” (Ellison is known to have clashed at a Hollywood disco with Frank Sinatra and his bodyguards.) Ellison began writing before university, regularly published notes in the fan press. Moving to New York in 1955, he published his first fantastic story Firefly (1956, Infinite Science Fiction). Two years before the army, he published more than 150 stories in various genres, ranging from fiction to eroticism and detective. In the same years, for several months he was a member of the Brooklyn youth group Barons. Impressions of the time formed the basis of the novel "Rocks" (1958). Ellison is one of the few authors of a generation that ventures to describe the extremely rich, complex, multifaceted life of a modern American city. About this - his non-fantastic books "Deadly Streets" (1958), "Junes" (1961), "Roccabili" (1961) and a number of others. Ellison can be considered a herald of the cyberpunk movement that emerged three decades later. Returning from the army in 1959, Ellison released in 1960 two books in the genre of NF ("Man with nine lives" and "Touch of Infinity"), quite standard in content, but since the third book ("Wonderland Harlan Ellison", 1962) his style changes dramatically. The next decade is the most fruitful in the life of a writer. He does not seek beaten roads, and remaining outside all literary camps, and his undoubted talent brings him seven prizes Hugo, three Nebula, and a number of others. Widely known for his collections “I have no mouth, but I must shout”, “From the land of fear”, “The monster that appealed to love in the center of the world”, “The dead bird: Pantheon of modern gods”, the novel “Phoenix without ashes”, written with Edward Bryant. In addition, he released a unique anthology "Dangerous Visions" (1967) and its sequel "Other Dangerous Visions", dedicated to the "new wave" in fiction. To this day, these books are considered the best anthologies of the “new wave”. In 1994, the novel “I, Robot” was published, written by Ellison in collaboration with Isaac Asimov.