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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 the screenplays for The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Long Goodbye (1973).
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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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 Best of Leigh Brackett is a collection of science fiction short stories by American author Leigh Brackett, edited by Edmond Hamilton. It was first published in hardcover by Nelson Doubleday in July 1977 and in paperback by Ballantine Books in September of the same year as a volume in its Classic Library of Science Fiction.
Leigh Brackett. Writer: Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back. Leigh Douglass Brackett was born in 1915 in Los Angeles. She was the author of numerous short stories and books regarding science fiction and has been referred to as the Queen of Space Opera.
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Leigh Brackett has 397 books on Goodreads with 43360 ratings. Leigh Brackett’s most popular book is The Long Tomorrow.
It is the slow, impressively warm and detailed epic of two boys and their finally successful attempts to find Bartorstown, where people are secretly reestablishing science and Technology. It was a best novel finalist for the 1956 Hugo awards, in a strong year; Brackett was the first woman novelist to be so recognized.
