Marilyn "Lynn" Venable (born June 1927) is an American writer.
Early life
Lynn Venable is from New Jersey.
[Angela Hill]
"Give'm Hill: El Cerrito Woman Lends 'Twilight Zone' Inspiration"
''Mercury News'' (December 26, 2012).
Career
Venable's short story "Time Enough at Last" (''If Magazine'' 1953) was adapted for television as
an episode of ''
The Twilight Zone
''The Twilight Zone'' is an American media franchise based on the anthology series, anthology television program, television series created by Rod Serling. The episodes are in various genres, including fantasy, science fiction, absurdism, dysto ...
'' in 1959, starring
Burgess Meredith
Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997) was an American actor and filmmaker whose career encompassed theater, film, and television.
Active for more than six decades, Meredith has been called "a virtuosic actor" and "on ...
. The story is frequently anthologized and discussed by scholars, who note that it was published in the same year as
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury (; August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of modes, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery fictio ...
's ''
Fahrenheit 451
''Fahrenheit 451'' is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. Often regarded as one of his best works, ''Fahrenheit 451'' presents an American society where books have been personified and outlawed and "firemen" burn any that ar ...
'' and includes similar themes about reading and books.
Other stories by Venable include "Homesick" (''Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine'' 1952), "Punishment Fit the Crime" (''Other Worlds'' 1953), "The Missing Room" (''Weird Tales'' 1953), "Doppelganger" (''Mystic Magazine'' 1954), "Parry's Paradox" (''Authentic Science Fiction'' 1955), and "Grove of the Unborn" (''Fantastic Universe'' 1957). "Someone once asked me, 'Why do you write these things? Why do you like to scare yourself?'" she told a reporter in 2012. "I said, 'I don't scare myself. I scare other people.'"
Personal life
Venable married at 18 and moved to
Dallas, Texas
Dallas () is the third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County wi ...
. By 1988 she had moved again to
Walnut Creek, California
Walnut Creek is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, about east of the city of Oakland. With a total population of 70,127 per the 2020 census, Walnut Creek s ...
.
"Dear Abby"
advice column, ''Northwest Herald'' (October 11, 1988): 13. via Newspapers.com
In 2012, she was living in a retirement community in El Cerrito, California
El Cerrito ( Spanish for "The Little Hill") is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, and forms part of the San Francisco Bay Area. It has a population of 25,962 according to the 2020 census. El Cerrito was founded by refug ...
.
References
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* Episode 1 of the podcas
''Buxom Blondes with Rayguns''
features two 1952 stories by Lynn Venable, read by Hannah Wolfe (January 27, 2018).
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American science fiction writers
American women writers
Date of birth missing (living people)
Living people
1927 births
21st-century American women