- Alan Brennert
Alan Brennert (born 1954 in
Englewood, New Jersey ) is aUnited States television producer andscreenwriter . Born in Englewood,New Jersey , Brennert has lived in Southern California since 1973 and completed graduate work in screenwriting at the University of California Los Angeles.He won an
Emmy Award as a producer and writer forL.A. Law in 1991. For science and fantasy readers, he might be best known as a writer forThe New Twilight Zone and the revival ofThe Outer Limits . One of his best regarded episodes was for the New Twilight Zone, an adaptation of his own storyHer Pilgrim Soul , which became a playHe also writes books and stories, the majority of which are science fiction or fantasy. His first story was published in 1973 and in 1975 he was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction. He also won a
Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 1991 and had stories inGardner Dozois 's Year's Best volumes. His most recent published book, Moloka'i, is a historical novel that focuses on life in Honolulu in the early 1900s and the leper colony atKalaupapa inHawaii , made famous byFather Damien ,Mother Marianne Cope andLawrence M. Judd , historical people who appear in the novel. It received mostly favorable reviews [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0312304358] .Brennert contributed many acclaimed
DC Comics stories forDetective Comics ,The Brave and The Bold , andSecret Origins in the 1980s and 1990s.Bibliography
*City of Masques (1978)
*Kindred Spirits (1984)
*Time and Chance (1990)
*Moloka'i (2003)
*Honolulu (2009)Awards and nominations
References
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction , pg 157External links
* [http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=992 Biography from Bookbrowse]
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