Before Ellison could begin work on the show's production bible, a writers ' strike began, running from March 6 to June 24.

On March 31, 1974, Ellison received a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay for the original script ( the pilot script as originally written, not the version that was filmed ).

A longtime resident of Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts – chronicled in his 1987 work Blues – John Hersey died at his winter home in Key West, Florida, on March 24, 1993 at the compound he and his wife shared with his friend, writer Ralph Ellison.

Donald Michael Ellison Foster ( born 31 March 1947 ) is a British Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament, representing Bath in southwest England.

On March 13, 2009, Harlan Ellison filed a lawsuit against CBS Paramount Television, seeking payment of 25 % of net receipts from merchandising, publishing, and other income from the episode since 1967 ; the suit also names the Writers Guild of America for allegedly failing repeatedly to act on Ellison's behalf in the matter.

F & SF assembled more than a dozen special issues devoted to a single author, beginning with a special issue on Theodore Sturgeon ( September 1962 ), followed by Ray Bradbury ( May 1963 ), Isaac Asimov ( October 1966 ), Fritz Leiber ( July 1969 ), Poul Anderson ( April 1971 ), James Blish ( April 1972 ), Frederik Pohl ( September 1973 ), Robert Silverberg ( April 1974 ), Damon Knight ( November 1976 ), Harlan Ellison ( July 1977 ), Stephen King ( December 1990 ), Lucius Shepard ( March 2001 ), Kate Wilhelm ( September 2001 ), Barry N. Malzberg ( June 2003 ) and Gene Wolfe ( April 2007 ).

On March 11, 2009, Forbes ranked Slim as the world's third-richest person, behind Gates and Buffett and ahead of Lawrence Ellison.

From March 2007 until the defeat of the Howard government in the 2007 election, Ellison was a member of cabinet as Minister for Human Services, overseeing the service delivery of Government agencies including Centrelink, Medicare and the Child Support Agency.

Frank Cararas Ellison ( March 14, 1887 – September 30, 1964 ) was an American model railroader who created the famous O scale Delta Lines model railroad in New Orleans, Louisiana and authored numerous articles from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 ), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.

Cyril Northcote Parkinson ( 30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993 ) was a British naval historian and author of some sixty books, the most famous of which was his bestseller Parkinson's Law, which led him to be also considered as an important scholar within the field of public administration.

Einhard ( also Eginhard or Einhart ; c. 775 – March 14, 840 ) was a Frankish scholar and courtier.

Ezra Abbot ( April 28, 1819, Jackson, Maine – March 21, 1884, Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an American biblical scholar.

Georgius Agricola ( 24 March 1494 – 21 November 1555 ) was a German scholar and scientist.

* March 25 – Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar ( d. 1990 )

* March 6 – Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris, French scholar ( b. 1839 )

* March 13 – George Granville Bradley, English vicar and scholar ( b. 1821 )

* March 10-Omer Tarin, Pakistani / South Asian poet, writer and scholar

* March 27 – Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar ( d. 1924 )

* March 21 – Ezra Abbot, American Bible scholar ( b. 1819 )

* March 9 – Martín Sarmiento, Spanish scholar and writer ( d. 1772 )

* March 8 – Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar ( b. 1701 )

* March 7 – Hayashi Razan, Japanese neo-Confucianist scholar ( b. 1583 )

* March 26 – Thomas Elyot, English diplomat and scholar ( b. c. 1490 )

* March 29 – John Lightfoot, English churchman and rabbinical scholar ( d. 1675 )

* March 25 – François de Bar, French scholar ( b. 1538 )

* March 10 – Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar ( b. 1533 )

* March 31 – Pieter Burmann the Elder, Dutch classical scholar ( b. 1668 )

* March 19 – Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian ( b. 1577 )

Matthew of Kraków ( c. 1335 – 5 March 1410 ), also commonly known as Matthäus von Krakau, was a renowned German-Polish scholar and priest of the fourteenth century.

* March 19 – Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar ( d. 1766 )

Theodor Zwinger the Elder ( August 2, 1533 – March 10, 1588 ) was a Swiss physician and humanist scholar.

* March 12 – Johann Heynlin, German humanist scholar ( b. c. 1425 )

* March 24 – Georg Agricola, German scholar and scientist ( d. 1555 )

Amos Bronson Alcott ( November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888 ) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer.

Aron Nimzowitsch ( or Aron Isayevich Nimtsovich, or Aaron Nimzovich ) (, ; born Aron Niemzowitsch ) ( 7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935 ) was a Russian-born, Danish leading chess master and a very influential chess writer.

The first occurrence of the phrase blue law so far found is in the New-York Mercury of March 3, 1755, where the writer imagines a future newspaper praising the revival of " our Connecticut's old Blue Laws ".

Charles Farrar Browne ( April 26, 1834 – March 6, 1867 ) was a United States humor writer, better known under his nom de plume, Artemus Ward.

Daniel Clement Dennett ( born March 28, 1942 ) is an American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.

Theodor Seuss Geisel (; March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991 ) was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone.

Ernest Gary Gygax ( ; July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008 ) was an American writer and game designer best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons ( D & D ) with Dave Arneson.

Henri Bordeaux ( 25 January 1870 in Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie-29 March 1963 ) was a French writer and lawyer.

Georges Prosper Remi ( 22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983 ), known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist.

John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris ( 10 July 1903 – 11 March 1969 ) was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes.

Gaius Julius Caesar (, July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC ) was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose.

Spacey was born in South Orange, New Jersey, the son of Kathleen Ann ( née Knutson ; December 5, 1931 – March 19, 2003 ), a secretary, and Thomas Geoffrey Fowler ( June 4, 1924 – December 24, 1992 ), a technical writer and data consultant.

Kim Stanley Robinson ( born March 23, 1952 ) is an American science fiction writer known for his award-winning Mars trilogy.

Karel van het Reve ( 19 May 1921, Amsterdam – 4 March 1999, Amsterdam ) was a Dutch writer, translator and literary historian, teaching and writing on Russian literature.

Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch ( 27 January 1836 — 9 March 1895 ) was an Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life.

In March 2007, together with Coldcut, he organised a tribute show to the writer and philosopher Robert Anton Wilson, which they performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Peter Altenberg ( 9 March 1859, Vienna – 8 January 1919, Vienna ) was a writer and poet from Vienna, Austria.

René Descartes (; Latinized form: Renatus Cartesius ; adjectival form: " Cartesian "; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650 ) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic.

Romare Bearden ( September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988 ) was an African-American artist and writer.

Robert Calvert ( 9 March 1944 – 14 August 1988 ) was a writer, poet, and musician.

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner ( March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933 ) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical takes on the sports world, marriage, and the theatre.

Shelton Jackson " Spike " Lee ( born March 20, 1957 ) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor.

The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets — a theatrical collaboration of Waits, director Robert Wilson, and writer William S. Burroughs — premiered at Hamburg's Thalia Theatre on March 31, 1990.

Sir Thomas Malory ( c. 1405 – 14 March 1471 ) was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d ' Arthur.

James Thorne Smith, Jr. ( March 27, 1892 – June 21, 1934 ) was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith.