Norman Richard Spinrad was born and educated in New York City. He received a B.S. from the City College of New York in 1961 after pursuing a prelaw curriculum. Unmarried, Spinrad currently resides in New York, after living for varying periods in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and London. Although he has worked at a wide number of jobs--sandalmaker, welfare investigator, literary agent, radio talk show host--he considers writing his only real career. In addition to the stories and novels that constitute the bulk of his work since his first publication in 1963, he has written a series of "metapolitical essays" for Knight magazine (collected in Fragments of America, 1970); hundreds of film reviews and other incidental magazine pieces; and television scripts for "Land of the Lost" and "Star Trek." The Doomsday Machine, his "Star Trek" script, was nominated for a 1968 Hugo Award. He has completed a screenplay for an as...