Harlan Ellison the Rebellious Author

== Early Life ==
Harlan Ellison was born in 1934 to Serita and Louis Ellison in Cleveland, Ohio, they later moved to Painesville, Ohio but returned when his father died in 1949, after this he had many odd jobs such as: fisherman, truck driver, hired gun, cab driver, cook , among others. He later studied at Ohio State University from 1951-1953 and was criticized for his poor writing skill by a professor, (he would later mail every story to that same professor), he was later expelled and severe in the U.S. Army from 1957-1959, he also protest in Montgomery, Alabama, and got married 5 times over a 30 year period starting in 1956. 
=== Controversy ===
Ellison is known for being very controversial with some examples being: he got fired on the first day of working at Walt Disney Studios after Roy O. Disney overheard him discussing making porn with Disney characters, sent a cigarette company a dozen bricks and a dead gopher with postage due, criticized Aggiecon for being "America's next generation of Nazis" he once insulted Producer Robert Shapiro after criticizing his script for a movie about a book called I, Robot without even reading it saying he had the "intellectual and cranial capacity of a artichoke", once fought critic Charles Pratt, supported child molester Ed Kramer, once put a microphone in his mouth and made a loud noise at the 2006 Hugo Awards and touched a woman's breast while on stage.
=== I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream ===
One of Ellison's most famous works is the novel I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream which follows the last 5 humans on earth being tortured everyday for a century by a Cold-War era robot named AM, the book was later given the 1966 Hugo and Nebula Awards and it also got turned into a game in the 1990's.
== Later Years ==
Ellison later suffered a stroke in October 10, 2014 and was paralyzed, he later died in June 28, 2018 in his Los Angles home and he also appeared in Scooby-Doohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_Ellison#Personal_life_and_death
File:Harlan Ellison.webp|Harlan Ellison in Scooby-Doo
File:Gettyimages-901984846.webp|old Harlan Ellison
File:IHaveNoMouth.jpg|I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
File:06worldcon033.jpg|Harlan Ellison with microphone in mouth at Hugo Awards