Serling, Rod

Rod Serling (1924 - 1975), best known as the creator of The Twilight Zone, was a seminal figure in the Golden Age of Television and became a cultural icon of the 20th century. A prolific writer, he wrote 252 scripts between 1950 and 1975; has won more Emmy Awards (6) than any other writer; and the Writers Guild of America recently declared Twilight Zone as one of the top three best written television programs of the past seventy years.