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Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 24, 1978) was an American author and screenwriter. Nicknamed "the Queen of Space Opera ," [ 1 ] she was one of the most prominent female writers during the Golden Age 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.
May 21, 2021 · Leigh Brackett's draft for Star Wars II would have produced a very different The Empire Strikes Back.
A summatory collection, edited by her husband, The Best of Leigh Brackett (coll 1977), confirms the muscular panache of her work and its haunting refusal to transcend her ample competence; as do the non- Mars stories assembled in Shannach – The Last: Farewell to Mars (coll 2011), which contains all her late short work.
Author Leigh Brackett's list of books and series in order, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability.
Sep 25, 2024 · Leigh Brackett is by far the least known of this trio, at least in literary circles. Among Star Wars fans, she is known as the writer of the first draft of the screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back, and sci-fi enthusiasts know her as an important foremother—the queen of the space opera—though most of her work is no longer in print.
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.
Science Fiction & Fantasy. edit data. 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.
Leigh Brackett has been hailed as the “Queen of the Space Opera”—a master of richly-detailed stories of planetary romance. She began writing during the early years of the Golden Age of science fiction, quickly gaining prominence as a novelist and screenwriter.
Leigh Brackett Born Leigh Douglass Brackett on December 7, 1915, in Los Angeles, California, the only child of William Franklin Brackett, an accountant and aspiring writer, and Margaret Douglass Brackett.
