Jerome Bixby

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Jerome Bixby
Jerome Bixby c. 1954
Born	Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby (1923-01-11)January 11, 1923 Los Angeles, California, United States
Died	April 28, 1998(1998-04-28) (aged 75) San Bernardino, California, United States
Pen name	D. B. Lewis Harry Neal Albert Russell J. Russell M. St. Vivant Thornecliff Herrick Alger Rome (in collaboration with Algis Budrys)
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer
Genre	Science fiction, western
Notable works	"It's a Good Life" "Mirror, Mirror" (Star Trek screenplay)

Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby (January 11, 1923 – April 28, 1998) was an American short story writer and scriptwriter. He wrote the 1953 story "It's a Good Life", which was included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame. It formed the basis of a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone and was remade in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983). He wrote four episodes for the Star Trek series: "Mirror, Mirror", "Day of the Dove", "Requiem for Methuselah", and "By Any Other Name". With Otto Klement, he co-wrote the story upon which the science fiction movie Fantastic Voyage (1966), the related television series, and the related Isaac Asimov novel were based. Bixby's final produced or published work so far was the screenplay for the 2007 science fiction film The Man from Earth.

He also wrote many westerns and used the pseudonyms Jay Lewis Bixby, D. B. Lewis, Harry Neal, Albert Russell, J. Russell, M. St. Vivant, Thornecliff Herrick, and Alger Rome (for one collaboration with Algis Budrys).