Harlan Ellison  (b. 1934) "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman LINKS No links found. BIOGRAPHY Harlan Ellison (b. 1934)  Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Ellison published his first story when he was thirteen. He left Ohio State University after two years and worked at a variety of odd jobs while establishing himself as a writer. In a career spanning over fifty years, he has written or edited fifty-eight books, more than twelve hundred stories, essays, reviews, articles, motion picture scripts, and teleplays. He has won the Hugo award eight and a half times, the Nebula three times, the Edgar Allan Poe award of the Mystery Writers of America twice, the Bram Stoker award of Horror Writers of America twice, the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Silver Pen award for journalism from P.E.N. He is the only scenarist in Hollywood ever to have won the Writers Guild of America award for Most Outstanding Teleplay four times for solo work. His recent books are The Essential Ellison (1986), a thirty-five-year retrospective of his work; The Harlan Ellison Hornbook (1990); and The City on the Edge of Forever (1995), the first book publication of his Star Trek script in its original (not aired) version. He lives with his wife, Susan, in the Lost Aztec Temple of Mars somewhere in the Los Angeles area.