Most of her tales were published not in book form but in "the Pulps," magazines-like Astounding, Startling Stories, and Planet Stories-which were the lifeblood of an American subculture of science fiction and fantasy.
In 1939, Leigh Brackett was 23 when she sold her first story, "The Martian Quest," to Astounding. 1 (NY: Ballantine Books, 1975) (trilogy) The Book of Skaith (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1976) (edited by Edmond Hamilton) The Best of Leigh Brackett (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1977). No Good from a Corpse (NY: Coward-McCann, 1944) (mystery) Stranger at Home (NY: Simon and Schuster, 1946) The Sword of Rhiannon (NY: Ace Books, 1953) The Galactic Breed (NY: Ace Books, 1955) The Long Tomorrow (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1955) The Tiger among Us (Garden City: Doubleday, 1957) Rio Bravo (NY: Bantam Books, 1959) The Nemesis From Terra (NY: Ace Books, 1961) Follow the Free Wind (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963) People of the Talisman and The Secret of Sinharat (NY: Ace Books, 1964) The Coming of the Terrans (NY: Ace Books, 1967) The Ginger Star (NY: Ballantine Books, 1974) The Best of Planet Stories No. Burroughs' The Gods of Mars "on or about" her eighth year began writing and submitting novels to editors (1928) sold first story to Astounding (1939) published first full-length novel, the mystery No Good from a Corpse (1944) collaborated with William Faulkner on screenplay of The Big Sleep (1944) won 1963 Silver Spur Award from the Western Writers of America for Follow the Free Wind, the only western she wrote was working on the screenplay for George Lucas' Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back when she died (1978). Pronunciation: Lee BRACK-it.īorn Leigh Douglass Brackett on December 7, 1915, in Los Angeles, California died on March 18, 1978, at age 63 only child of Margaret (Douglass) Brackett and William Franklin Brackett (a certified public accountant) attended private girls' schools completed four years of high school in three years and refused a college scholarship married Edmond Hamilton (a science-fiction writer), on Janu(died 1977) no children.ĭiscovered fantasy- science fiction by reading E.R. Name variations: George Sanders, a pseudonym used for the mystery novel Stranger at Home.
American author and screenwriter who was dubbed the "Queen of Space Opera" for her contribution to the science-fiction genre.
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