He passed away at the age of 93 due to complications from an infection. As Nolan has stated: “That I am known at all is still astonishing to me. Since 1951 he has sold more than 1500 stories, articles, books, and other works.Īlthough Nolan wrote roughly 2000 pieces, to include biographies, short stories, poetry, and novels, Logan’s Run retains its hold on the public consciousness as a political fable and dystopian warning. Moving to the Los Angeles area in 1953, Nolan became along with Bradbury, Beaumont, and Richard Matheson part of the 'inner core' of the soon-to-be highly influential 'Southern California Group' of writers.

He began concentrating on writing rather than art and, in 1952, was introduced by fellow Missouri native (and established writer) Ray Bradbury to another young up-and-coming author, Charles Beaumont. He moved to California in the late 1940s and studied at San Diego State College. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute and worked as an artist for Hallmark Cards. Nolan was born in 1928 in Kansas City Missouri. His short stories have been selected for scores of anthologies and textbooks and he is twice winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Special Award from the Mystery Writers of America.

Nolan is best known as the co-author (with George Clayton Johnson) of Logan's Run - a science fiction novel that went on to become a movie, a television series and is about to become a movie again - and as single author of its sequels.

Logan's Run by William F. Nolan