Jerry Sohl

Real world article

(written from a production point of view)

Jerry Sohl
Birth name:	Gerald Allen Sohl
Date of birth:	2 December 1913
Place of birth:	Los Angeles, California, USA
Date of death:	4 November 2002
Place of death:	Thousand Oaks, California, USA
Awards for Trek:	Hugo Award nominee
Roles:	Writer

For the in-universe article on the Incredible Tales author, please see Jerry Sohl (author).

Jerry Sohl (2 December 1913 – 4 November 2002; age 88) was a science fiction prose writer, who wrote three episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series. For television, he first ghost-wrote episodes of The Twilight Zone for Charles Beaumont, who was suffering from Alzheimers. He used the pseudonym of Nathan Butler for his credit on "This Side of Paradise" because he was displeased with D.C. Fontana's rewrite of his original script.

Star Trek credits

• TOS:
  • "The Corbomite Maneuver"
  • "This Side of Paradise" (story; credited as Nathan Butler)
  • "Whom Gods Destroy" (story)

External links

• Jerry Sohl at the Internet Movie Database
• Jerry Sohl at SF-Encyclopedia.com
• Jerry Sohl at Wikipedia