Leigh Douglass Brackett (1915-12-07)December 7, 1915 Los Angeles, California, US
Died
March 24, 1978(1978-03-24) (aged 62) Lancaster, California, US
Occupation
Novelist, screenwriter
Genre
Science fiction, crime fiction
Notable works
Eric John Stark series
Spouse
Edmond Hamilton
(m. 1946; died 1977)
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Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 24, 1978) was an American science fiction writer known as "the Queen of Space Opera."[1] She was also a screenwriter, known for The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Long Goodbye (1973). She worked on an early draft of The Empire Strikes Back (1980), elements of which remained in the film; she died before it went into production. In 1956, her book The Long Tomorrow made her the first woman ever shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, and, along with C. L. Moore, one of the first two women ever nominated for a Hugo Award. In 2020, she posthumously won a Retro Hugo for her novel The Nemesis From Terra, originally published as "Shadow Over Mars" (Startling Stories, Fall 1944).
^Liptak, Andrew (December 7, 2015). "Happy 100th Birthday to Leigh Brackett, the Queen of Space Opera!". io9.gizmodo.com. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 24, 1978) was an American science fiction writer known as "the Queen of Space Opera." She was also a...
1946, Hamilton married fellow science fiction author and screenwriter LeighBrackett in San Gabriel, California, and moved with her to Kinsman, Ohio. Afterward...
epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner from a screenplay by LeighBrackett and Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas. The sequel to...
Laurie Strode's best friends, and the daughter of Haddonfield's sheriff, LeighBrackett. She is portrayed as having a very rebellious and sardonic personality...
work in the films of John Carpenter, especially his role as Sheriff LeighBrackett in Carpenter's 1978 movie Halloween. He reprised this role in the 1981...
Rothrock and Alien Resurrection (1997). He later appeared as Sheriff Lee Brackett in Rob Zombie's Halloween (2007) and Halloween II (2009). In 2013, Dourif...
Hawks and starring John Wayne, from a screenplay by Burton Wohl and LeighBrackett. The film was shot in Cuernavaca in the Mexican state of Morelos and...
screenplay for the film also reteamed Faulkner and Furthman, in addition to LeighBrackett. Curiously, Raymond Chandler, who had been nominated for an Oscar as...
popularized by Edgar Rice Burroughs in the Barsoom series and adopted by LeighBrackett among others. More exotic lifeforms appeared in stories like Stanley...
the film. It was based on the 1957 novel The Tiger Among Us (1957) by LeighBrackett, who called the film "very, very dull". A rocket scientist, Walt Sherrill...
Lindsey to the hospital and reunites with former Haddonfield sheriff LeighBrackett, whose daughter Annie was killed in 1978, and informs Laurie about Michael's...
Lucas also gave away his screenwriting credit out of great respect for LeighBrackett for The Empire Strikes Back after her death from cancer. He also acted...
planetary romance and the sword-and-planetary, practiced by the likes of LeighBrackett and Michael Moorcock and which you will still find examples of being...
Eric John Stark is a character created by the science fiction author LeighBrackett. Stark is the hero of a series of pulp adventures set in a time when...
were obsolete, and Del Rey Books labeled reissues of earlier work of LeighBrackett as space opera.: 10–18 By the early 1980s, space operas were again...
The Best of LeighBrackett is a collection of science fiction short stories by American author LeighBrackett, edited by Edmond Hamilton. It was first...
of Eternity Doubleday Cyril M. Kornbluth Not This August Doubleday LeighBrackett The Long Tomorrow Doubleday 1958 Fritz Leiber* The Big Time Galaxy Science...
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