I Am Legend
Richard Matheson was an author and screenwriter. He was born in New Jersey in 1926 and raised in Brooklyn. After completing his studies at school, Matheson joined the army and served with the infantry in Europe during the Second World War. Upon his return to America he graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in journalism and moved to California. He published his first short story, ‘Born of Man and Woman’, in 1950 and his first novel, I am Legend, in 1954. His 1956 book, The Shrinking Man, and its film adaptation the following year, enabled Matheson to make a career out of his passion. Many of Matheson’s works have been adapted for the screen, including A Stir of Echoes (1958), Bid Time Return (1975) and What Dreams May Come (1978). In 1991 he received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement and in 2010 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. He died in 2013.
Joe Hill is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels Heart-Shaped Box (2007), Horns (2010), NOS4A2 (2013), The Fireman (2016); a collection of novellas, Strange Weather (2017); and the acclaimed story collections 20th Century Ghosts (2005) and Full Throttle (2019). He is also the Eisner Award-winning writer of a seven-volume comic book series, Locke & Key (2008-13). Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV, including NOS4A2 (AMC), Locke & Key (Netflix), In the Tall Grass (Netflix) and The Black Phone (Blumhouse).