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name: "Jerome Bixby"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "11 January 1923"
died: "28 April 1998"
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average_fi1m_score: 84
updated: "2026-09-16T15:46:57.564588+00:00"
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# Jerome Bixby

Writer. Born 11 January 1923 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.. Died 28 April 1998.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 11 January 1923, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- **Died:** 28 April 1998
- **Active:** 1959–1966
- **Also known as:** Jay Lewis Bixby
- **Works often with:** Anton Leader, George Clayton Johnson, Jerry Sohl, Ralph Senensky, Richard Matheson, Robert Butler

## Biography

Jerome Bixby was an American writer of science fiction short stories and screenplays. He also wrote westerns and worked as an editor of science fiction magazines including Planet Stories.

Bixby wrote the 1953 short story 'It's a Good Life', which formed the basis of a 1961 episode of *The Twilight Zone* and a segment of *Twilight Zone: The Movie* (1983). He contributed four episodes to the original *Star Trek* series: 'Mirror, Mirror' (1967), 'By Any Other Name' (1968), 'Day of the Dove' (1968) and 'Requiem for Methuselah' (1969). With Otto Klement he co-wrote the story for *Fantastic Voyage* (1966) and wrote the screenplay for *It! The Terror from Beyond Space* (1958). His final produced work was the screenplay for *The Man from Earth* (2007).

Bixby studied piano and composition at the Juilliard School of Music. He was born Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby on 11 January 1923 in Los Angeles, California, and died on 28 April 1998 in San Bernardino, California.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, sf-encyclopedia.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Star Trek* (1966), Fi1m 83, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-1966.md)
- *The Twilight Zone* (1959), Fi1m 84, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-twilight-zone.md)

## Also known for

- *The Man from Earth* (2007), Writer
- *Twilight Zone: The Movie* (1983), Story
- *Fantastic Voyage* (1966), Story
- *The Man from Earth: Holocene* (2017), Characters
- *The Twilight Zone* (2002), Writer
- *It! The Terror from Beyond Space* (1958), Screenplay

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