Richard Matheson (1926-2013)

[james_davis_nicoll]

Tor.com is saddened and staggered to learn of the passing of Richard Matheson, the esteemed author of I am Legend, The Shrinking Man, What Dreams May Come, Hell House, the script for the Steven Spielberg film Duel, and many Twilight Zone scripts, among many more works.

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[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

There's a James Michener quote with a fictional Polynesian here, but it has "friends", though the friends being referred to are all men:

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BOYD/2004-03/1078580258