![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It took Serling a long time to write about her father. It's a warm, poetic love letter to her father, who in real life was a clown who enjoyed making his daughter laugh and played basketball with her. ![]() After teaching for several years she turned to writing poetry and has now written a poignant memoir, "As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling." Serling was also a devoted husband and father, and his younger daughter Anne Serling, 57, has followed in her father's footsteps. Serling returned in 1970 to the type of dramatic special he had success with in the 1950s with the Emmy-winning "Hallmark Hall of Fame" drama "A Storm in Summer." In his prolific career, Serling also wrote such films as 1964's "Seven Days in May" and 1968's "Planet of the Apes." He was also the host and frequent writer on the NBC anthology series "Night Gallery" in the early 1970s. Before his death in 1975 at age 50, Rod Serling was one of the top Emmy Award-winning writers during the golden age of live TV drama of the 1950s, penning such acclaimed dramas as "Patterns," "Requiem for a Heavyweight" and "The Comedian." In the 1960s he became a TV superstar as the host of his seminal CBS anthology series "The Twilight Zone." ![]()
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