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Murray Leinster ( / ˈlɛnstər /) was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975), an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.
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Murray Leinster was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. He wrote and published over 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.
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Born on June 16, 1896, Will F. Jenkins, often writing as Murray Leinster, was among the most prominent writers of science fiction for nearly fifty years. He began with The Runaway Skyscraper, which appeared in 1919 when he was in his early twenties.
Leinster began publishing fiction in 1916, and was active as an sf writer from 1919 – the year of his first story of genre interest, The Runaway Skyscraper (22 February 1919 Argosy and Railroad Man's Magazine; 2005 ebook), about a building falling backwards through time (see Timeslip) – until about 1970.
Murray Leinster has 790 books on Goodreads with 38198 ratings. Murray Leinster’s most popular book is Med Ship (Med Service, #1-4).
