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5 days ago · Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling was a paratrooper during WWII. After the war, he wrote a short story inspired by the experience. It's now being published for the first time in The Strand.
3 days ago · For the show’s host and writer, Rod Serling, World War II was a trauma he would re-imagine often. Serling, born 100 years ago this December, served in the 11th Airborne Division in the ...
4 days ago · Amy Boyle Johnston, author of the 2015 book “Unknown Serling,” found the story while looking through Serling’s papers at the University of Wisconsin. Serling, who died in 1975, had yet to start a family when he wrote “First Squad, First Platoon.”
5 days ago · There, in his early 20s, he penned "First Squad, First Platoon," a short story which is being published for the first time Thursday in The Strand. It was one of his earliest stories, starting a writing career that Serling once said helped him get the war "out of his gut." "It was like an exercise for him to deal with the demons of war and fear ...
5 days ago · Last modified on Thu 9 May 2024 03.37 EDT. A story of the second world war by Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone, will be published in the US on Thursday after lying among his papers for ...
4 days ago · Johnston didn't waste time in sending the piece to Anne Serling, who reprinted a snippet (including the opening dedication to the writer's then-unborn children) in her memoir, As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling. "Andrew Gulli wrote me after the publication of my memoir, asking about the story and he circled back a few months ago," she recalls.
