Born in Cortland, New York and raised in Binghamton, Serling graduated from Antioch College in 1942.
[4] He was the older brother of screenwriter and The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling.
His novel The President's Plane Is Missing was made into a 1973 made-for-TV film starring Buddy Ebsen.
He received the 1988 Lauren D. Lyman Award "for distinguished achievement in the field of aviation and aerospace journalism.
[4] Serling died of pancreatic cancer on May 6, 2010, at age 92 in Tucson, Arizona.