93 Years of Shatner (Quillette bio/tribute)

Covers lots of pre-Trek roles, but not his start doing Shakespeare on stage in Ontario. A few paragraphs on famous sci-fi/fantasy writers.

https://quillette.com/2024/03/22/93-years-of-william-shatner-star-trek/
A tribute to an irrepressible TV star’s ability to live long and prosper.

It isn’t just a coincidence that names like Richard Matheson, Harlan Ellison, and Rod Serling crop up frequently in discussions of Shatner’s career. Academics frequently celebrate the work of various American literary schools—the American ex-pats of the so-called Lost Generation, the writers of the Harlem Renaissance, the Beats—but few literary salons have influenced American popular culture as profoundly as the Southern California fantasists who were all brought together by Rod Serling for his Twilight Zone series and later worked on other fantasy and sci-fi shows, including Star Trek.