Charles Beaumont
Charles Beaumont (
January 2,
1929 -
February 21,
1967) was a prolific
U.S author of
science fiction who frequently wrote for
The Twilight Zone TV series. He was born in
Chicago, Illinois as
Charles Leroy Nutt to an abusive mother who frequently dressed him in girls' clothes and once killed one of his pets as punishment. Beaumont was an outgoing, spontaneous person, prone to take trips out of country at a moment's notice. At age 34, Beaumont began to suffer from
Alzheimer's disease; he died later at 38.
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