He got divorced in 1972 and married a woman called Abby Schulman the same year.
His book The 10th Victim was made into a movie which came out in 1965. He was also selling more of his stories to magazines like Playboy and began penning suspense fiction in the sixties, putting out more books and short stories. Sheckley then married Ziva Kwitney, a journalist, living in Greenwich Village and sharing a daughter who would go on to be a writer (Alisa Kwitney). Soon more of his stories were published in different magazines and he had his first books come out in the fifties. He worked various jobs but sold his first story to a magazine in 1951, which helped him rise up as a writer. He would marry a woman named Barbara, and they had a son together named Jason. He would graduate in 1951 from NYU with an arts degree. He worked in a variety of jobs before signing up with the Army in 1946 and being sent to Korea, leaving in 1948. He discovered science fiction in high school and made his way to California the year that he graduated. He was born in New York City and his family moved to New Jersey in 1931. In 2001, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named him an Author Emeritus. The American author first rose to attention in the fifties in sci-fi magazines. Robert Sheckley was a published author born July 16, 1928, and passed away December 9, 2005.
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