Jerry Sohl

Born Gerald Allan Sohl Sr. in Los Angeles on December 2, 1913, Jerry Sohl became known as an American science fiction author, journalist, and television scriptwriter. Reference sources on his career also note that he wrote under names including Nathan Butler and Sean Mei Sullivan.

He built a reputation in science fiction during the 1950s, publishing novels and short fiction while also moving into screen work. He later wrote for several major television series, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Outer Limits, and Star Trek: The Original Series, and he is also remembered for ghostwriting some Twilight Zone episodes for Charles Beaumont.

Sohl's career stretched across books, magazines, film, and television, which helps explain why his name keeps appearing in so many corners of mid-century speculative fiction. He died on November 4, 2002, in Thousand Oaks, California, leaving behind a body of work that connects the magazine era of science fiction with some of television's most enduring genre shows.