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Lesson SixButton, Buttonby Richard Matheson Biographic information about the author He was born February 20th, 1926 in New Jersey, started writing at the age of eight), educated in journalism in New York and Missouri and saw action during World War II. Born in New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn, Richard Burton Matheson first became a published author while still a child, when his stories and poems ran in the Brooklyn Eagle( The Brooklyn Eagle, also called The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, was a daily newspaper published in Brooklyn, New York from October 26). A lifelong reader of fantasy tales, he made his professional writing bow in 1950 when his short story Born of Man and Woman appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction; Matheson turned out a number of highly regarded horror, fantasy and mystery stories throughout that decade. He broke into films in 1956, adapting his novel The Shrinking Man for the big-screen The Incredible Shrinking Man. Seizing the chance he negotiated the chance to write the screenplay, and he was in. Various things lead to another, and he worked with and along side a lot of the big names in the business. Still not exhausted of possibilities he moved onto television, writing the screenplay for the first break of a certain Steven Spielberg, then going on to create the top-rating telemovie up to that time The Night Stalker, along with its sequel The Night Strangler. A Tv play: Button, Button Button, Button is an episode of The Twilight Zone. This episode was based off of the short story created by Richard Matheson, also titled Button, Button. Mare Winningham is the wife of a down and out loser. One day, a smartly dressed stranger comes to their door and tells them they will be granted a large sum of money if they press the button within a special box he has. The catch ... once they press the button, someone somewhere in the world will die -- someone they dont know. After pressing the button, the stranger returns and gives t