Robert J. Serling was born on March 28, 1918 in Cortland, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for The Twilight Zone (1959), Playhouse 90 (1956) and Studio One (1948). He was married to Patricia Hoyer, Priscilla Arone and Patricia Huntley. He died on May 6, 2010 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Was made United Press International's (UPI) aviation editor in Washington, D.C., in 1960. The success of his first novel, "The President's Plane Is Missing", allowed him to quit UPI and become a full-time writer.
After the war, he was a reporter for the United Press International based in Washington D.C. covering air crashes and was later aviation editor at U.P.I. and the manager of it's radio news division.
During World War II, he served in the United States Army Air Forces as an aircraft-identification instructor.
He earned a Bachelor's degree in political science from Antioch College in Ohio in 1942.