Ed Naha (born June 10, 1950) is an American science fiction and mystery writer and producer. His first known publication was artwork that appeared in the first issue of Modern Monsters magazine, dated June 1966.
Education and early career
Naha was born in Linden, New Jersey
and graduated from
Kean University in
New Jersey with a degree in Secondary English Education.
His early career was as a journalist, writing pieces about film and rock music for American publications such as
Playboy, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, and
The New York Post.'' magazine, Issue One, June 1966]]
He worked in publicity and artistic development at
Columbia Records, where he was mentored by the producer and talent scout John Hammond.
He produced the spoken-word album
Inside Star Trek in 1976, featuring the series creator
Gene Roddenberry with guests
William Shatner,
DeForest Kelley, and
Mark Lenard. That same year, the Bruce Springsteen album
Born to Run, for which Naha was A&R Coordinator, was certified gold.
Journalism, novels and non-fiction
Naha worked as a staff writer and editor for the science fiction film magazine
Starlog. Under the pseudonym Joe Bonham (a name borrowed from the protagonist of
Dalton Trumbo's anti-war novel
Johnny Got His Gun) he edited the first issue of
Starlog's sister magazine, the popular horror film magazine
Fangoria.
Naha has written more than 25 novels in the
Horror fiction, mystery and science fiction genres, including the
Traveler science fiction series under the "house pseudonym" D.B. Drumm, which Naha shared with
John Shirley.
His mystery novel
Cracking Up was nominated for the
Edgar Award for "Best Paperback Original" by the Mystery Writers of America in 1992.
His novelizations include prose adaptations of the films
Dead-Bang,
Ghostbusters II, and the first two
RoboCop pictures. Naha's nonfiction works include
The Science Fictionary, The Films of Roger Corman: Brilliance on a Budget, The Making of Dune (1984), and the posthumous editions of
Lillian Roxon.
Screenwriting and television production
Naha's screen work includes two screenplays for
Roger Corman,
Oddballs and
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom, and three scripts for producer
Charles Band:
Troll , Dolls, and Spellcaster. Naha achieved his greatest commercial success through a screenplay collaboration with Dolls director Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna on the script for a comedy/science-fantasy feature, The Teenie-Weenies, which became the family-friendly franchise Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. and
The Adventures of Sinbad. Naha's contractual work for Hollywood is done through his company A Fine Mess, Inc., named in honor of his comedy idols, Laurel and Hardy.
Most recently, Naha has been credited with the screenplays for the first three titles in the "Epic Stories of the Bible" series of animated features produced by Promenade Pictures.
Politics
As a sideline, Naha maintains a political blog, hosted at
The Smirking Chimp, which he says was motivated by his concern over the inauguration of George W. Bush as 43rd President of the United States.
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