Career
Nolan is perhaps best known for coauthoring the novel Logan's Run, with George Clayton Johnson, but has written literally hundreds of pieces, from poetry to nonfiction, to prose, for many publications, such as Rogue, Playboy, Dark Discoveries, Nameless, and others. He also had a long career in the movie industry, primarily working for Dan Curtis, and co-wrote the screenplay for the 1976 horror film Burnt Offerings which starred Karen Black and Bette Davis.
Nolan has also been a prolific editor of collections (by others), and anthologies, most recently co-editing two anthologies with friend, filmmaker, and writer Jason V Brock: "The Bleeding Edge" (2009), with stories from fellow writers Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, George Clayton Johnson, John Shirley, Dan O'Bannon, and several others, and "The Devil's Coattails" (2011), which featured offerings from Ramsey Campbell, S. T. Joshi, Richard Selzer, Earl Hamner, Jr., and more. Nolan teamed up with Bluewater Productions for a comic book series, "Logan's Run: LastDay", released in 2010. In addition, he developed comics based on two other properties of his for Bluewater: "Tales from William F. Nolan's Dark Universe" (featuring stories adapted by Nolan and Brock), and "Sam Space" (both out in 2013).
Among his many awards, he was voted a Living Legend in Dark Fantasy by the International Horror Guild in 2002. In 2006, he was bestowed the honorary title of Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America In 2010, he received the Lifetime Achievement Stoker award from the Horror Writers Association (HWA).
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