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- Ray Russell was born on September 4, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer, known for X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963), X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes and The Premature Burial (1962). He was married to Ada Russel. He died on March 15, 1999 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpouseAda Russel(? - March 15, 1999) (his death, 1 son & 1 daughter)
- Studied at both the Goodman Memorial Theatre and the Chicago Conservatory of Music.
- He was for many years the senior fiction editor of "Playboy" magazine, which published many of his stories.
- 2025: Daughter Amanda died on September 22, 2025 (complications of end-stage kidney disease).
- "I would say ... ego, guilt, boredom, the need for approval, a love of language, and the desire to entertain myself. I think it was William Saroyan who said he wrote so that he would have something good to read in his old age. That's not a bad reason." (on why he writes)
- Surely, by this time, it is common knowledge that screenwriters - unlike novelists or playwrights - are hired hands who are neither the legal owners nor final arbiters of their own work, and whose every page is subject to the sometimes capricious approval, disapproval, additions, subtractions, constructive and destructive intrusion of the producer and/or director.
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