George Clayton Johnson

George Clayton Johnson was an American science fiction writer, best known for cowriting the novel Logans Run with William F. Nolan, the basis for the MGM 1976 film. He was also known for his television scripts for The Twilight Zone , and the first telecast episode of Star Trek, entitled The Man Trap. He also wrote the story on which the 1960 and 2001 films Oceans Eleven were based.

Johnson was born in a barn in Cheyenne, Wyoming, was forced to repeat the sixth grade, and dropped out of school entirely in the eighth. He briefly served as a telegraph operator and draftsman in the United States Army, then enrolled at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute under the G.I. Bill, but quit to return to his travels around the U.S., working as a draftsman, before becoming a writer.

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