![]() ![]() Busy in Hollywood, she asked her friend Ray Bradbury to complete her novella “Lorelei of the Red Mist,” published jointly in 1946. Also a writer of detective fiction, Brackett’s first novel, No Good from a Corpse (1944), attracted the attention of director Howard Hawks, who hired her to work with William Faulkner and Jules Furthman on the screenplay for The Big Sleep (1946), based on Raymond Chandler’s novel. Joining the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society in 1939, Brackett published her first story, “Martian Quest,” in the February 1940 Astounding Science-Fiction by the end of World War II she had become a prolific contributor to science fiction magazines including Astonishing Stories, Comet, Planet Stories, Super Science Stories, and Thrilling Wonder Stories. Family financial difficulties forced her to decline a college scholarship. Her father died in 1918 during the flu pandemic and Brackett was raised by her mother and maternal grandparents in Santa Monica, where she attended a private girls’ school. Brackett in Los Angeles, California, the only child of Margaret (Douglass) Brackett and William Franklin Brackett, an accountant and aspiring writer. ![]() Leigh Brackett (December 7, 1915–March 18, 1978), known among science fiction fans as the “Queen of Space Opera,” was born Leigh C. ![]()
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