American writer
Attended the 2006 Twilight Zone Convention at the Hilton Hasbrouck Heights, Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, August 12-13, 2006.
Attended the 2007 Twilight Zone Convention at the Hilton Hasbrouck Heights, Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, August 4-5, 2007.
Upon deciding that he wanted to become a writer, Johnson joined a circle of Southern California science-fiction writers that included William F. Nolan , Charles Beaumont , Richard Matheson and Ray Bradbury.
Co-creator of the comic book series Deepest Dimension Terror Anthology, with cartoonist and author Jay Allen Sanford (Revolutionary Comics).
Johnson was a strong advocate for the legalization of marijuana. He reputedly smoked weed all day, every day, well into his 80s.
His father was in the army and later worked as a day labourer and occasional bootlegger. When George was young, his parents divorced. He remained with his alcoholic mother, but, at the age of fourteen, the courts removed him to a state orphanage in Casper, Wyoming.
He served in the Army, then studied drafting in college. He eventually moved to Los Angeles where he worked as a draftsman for the Lockheed aviation company while moonlighting as a writer. Soon after quitting his day job to pursue writing full-time, he met a Twilight Zone writer, Charles Beaumont , who introduced him to the shows creator, Rod Serling.
