David Gerrold, born Jerrold David Friedman (January 24, 1944), in Chicago, Illinois, is an award-winning science fiction author who started his career in 1966 as a college student by submitting an unsolicited story outline for the television series "Star Trek". He was invited to submit several premises, and the one chosen by "Star Trek" was filmed as "The Trouble with Tribbles", … Wikipedia
David Gerrold started writing professionally in 1967. His first sale was "The Trouble with Tribbles" episode of Star Trek. Within five years, he had published seven novels, two books about television production, three anthologies, and a short story coll www.chtorr.com/
Wrote "The Trouble With Tribbles", the most-popular episode of "Star Trek" (1966) In 1992, Gerrold adopted an 8-year-old boy named Sean. Guest of honor at WESTERCON 28 science-fiction convention (Oakland, CA, July 3-6, 1975). Wrote a syndicated column for www.imdb.com/name/nm0314775/
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