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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 wrote th screenplays for The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Long Goodbye (1973).
May 3, 2013 · Learn about the life and work of Leigh Brackett, a pioneer of science fantasy and space opera who wrote the first draft of The Empire Strikes Back. Discover how she defied critics, influenced the genre and created epic stories of adventure and escape.
Leigh Brackett was born on December 7, 1915 in Los Angeles, and raised near Santa Monica. Having spent her youth as an athletic tom-boy - playing volleyball and reading stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs and H Rider Haggard - she began writing fantastic adventures of her own.
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Leigh Brackett was a prolific and influential science fiction author and screenwriter, known for her work on The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo, and Star Wars. She died in 1978 and was posthumously honored with the Nebula Grand Master Award in 2018.
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May 21, 2021 · Learn how sci-fi legend Leigh Brackett shaped the sequel to Star Wars with her script, which introduced Yoda, Lando, and the ice planet Hoth. See the handwritten notes and crossed out lines from her original draft, which differed from the final film in some ways.
The mentor to Ray Bradbury, a masterful storyteller of limitless imagination, exquisite writing skills and quite an impressive range, Leigh Brackett was ahead of her time just as she was ahead of most of her colleagues.
Leigh Brackett has 396 books on Goodreads with 43265 ratings. Leigh Brackett’s most popular book is The Long Tomorrow.
