The Hunger, and Other Stories by Charles Beaumont

An avid racing fan, he often enjoyed participating in or watching area speedway races, with other authors tagging along. It was also at about this time that Beaumont started writing for television and film.īeaumont was energetic and spontaneous, and was known to take trips (sometimes out of the country) at a moment's notice. In 1954, Playboy magazine selected his story 'Black Country' to be the first work of short fiction to appear in its pages. He soon adopted this name legally, and used it both personally and professionally for the rest of his life. Beaumont (inspired by the city of Beaumont, located in East Texas), before settling on the name Charles Beaumont. During his time as an illustrator he briefly used the pseudonyms Charles McNutt (circa 1947/48) and E.T. He also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, disc jockey, usher and dishwasher before selling his first story to Amazing Stories in 1950. He dropped out of high school in tenth grade to join the army. School did not hold his attention, and his last name exposed him to ridicule, so Charles Nutt found solace as a teenager in science fiction. These early experiences inspired the celebrated short story 'Miss Gentilbelle', but according to Beaumont, 'Football, baseball and dimestore cookie thefts filled my early world.' Letty is known to have dressed young Charles in girls' clothes, and once threatened to kill his dog to punish him. His father was 55 when Charles was born Letty, his mother, was nearly 20 years her husband's junior. Nutt (an auditor of freight accounts for a railroad) and Letty Nutt, a homemaker.

Beaumont was born Charles Leroy Nutt in Chicago, the only child of Charles H.

The Hunger, and Other Stories by Charles Beaumont