Radell Faraday Nelson (October 3, 1931 – November 30, 2022) was an American science fiction author and cartoonist most famous for his 1963 short story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning", which was later used by John Carpenter as the basis for his 1988 film They Live. Nelson was born October 3, 1931, in Schenectady, New York, the son of Walter Hughes Nelson and Marie Reed. He has one younger brother, Trevor Reed Nelson. Ray became an active member of science fiction fandom while still a teenager at Cadillac High School in Cadillac, Michigan. After graduation, he attended the University of Chicago (studying theology), then spent four years studying in Paris, where he met Jean-Paul Sartre, Boris Vian and Simone de Beauvoir, as well as Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, William Burroughs and other Beat Generation icons. In Paris, he worked with Michael Moorcock smuggling then-banned Henry Miller books out of France. While there, he also met Norwegian Kirsten Enge, who became his third wife on October 4, 1957. Their only child, Walter Trygve Nelson, was born September 21, 1958, in Paris. He had previously been married to Lisa Mulligan on December 13, 1955, and subsequently to fellow fan Perdita Lilly, subject of his first book, the 23-page poetry collection Perdita: Songs of Love, Sex and Self Pity, who would later marry John Boardman. He was married to published poet and professor Dr. Helene Knox, a Fulbright scholar. More information...
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