Nat Segaloff has known Harlan Ellison for 20 years and, for decades before meeting him, enjoyed reading his work. Their first close encounter was when he interviewed Ellison for his A&E Biography on Stan Lee. After that, Ellison appeared as an actor in The Waldorf Conference, a play Segaloff co-wrote about the origins of the Hollywood Blacklist.

Segaloff’s other books include biographies of directors Arthur Penn and William Friedkin, screenwriter Stirling Silliphant, and Final Cuts: The Last Films of 50 Great Directors. He was also a founding partner, with John de Lancie and Leonard Nimoy, of the science fiction production company Alien Voices. He lives in Los Angeles ducking phone calls.