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 Leigh Douglass Brackett was married to Edmond Hamilton, also a science fiction writer, and was a close friend of Ray Bradbury.
She was born and raised in Los Angeles, California and married at the age of 31. Shortly thereafter she moved to Kinsman, Ohio before again settling in California, this time in Lancaster.
Brackett began writing at a young age and was first published in her mid-twenties. She wrote her first novel, No good for a Corpse, a mystery novel in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, in 1944.
During this time Brackett was also writing science fiction stories, including Shadow Over Mars (1944) and Terror Out of Space (1944).
She also found some success in screenwriting, helping William Faulkner write the script for The Big Sleep (1946) as well as co-writing several John Wayne pictures. Brackett also worked on the screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back, which won a Hugo Award in 1981.
She also wrote some crime fiction under the pseudonym George Sanders.
Leigh Brackett died of cancer in 1978 in Lancaster, California. [edit]
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