Leigh Brackett was born in in Los Angeles, California and raised near Santa Monica. She 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, and her first published science fiction story was "Martian Quest", which appeared in the February 1940 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. Her first novel, No Good from a Corpse (1944), was a hard-boiled mystery novel. This novel inspired Hollywood director Howard Hawks to ask her to help William Faulkner write the script for the film The Big Sleep (1946). In 1946 she married science fiction author Edmond Hamilton, and after the release of The Big Sleep, returned to writing science-fiction writing, producing several novel-length science fiction works in addition to short stories. In 1955, as pulp magazines were folding and the market for short science fiction adventure stories was cooling, she began to work more for the film and television markets, although she still produced some science fiction, such as The Long Tomorrow (1955). She returned to fiction writing in the 1970s, producing The Ginger Star (1974), The Hounds of Skaith (1974), and The Reavers of Skaith (1976), collected as The Book of Skaith in 1976.
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The Long Tomorrow
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The Ginger Star
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No good from a corpse
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The Big Jump
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Follow the Free Wind
4 editions - first published in 1963 -
The Starmen of Llyrdis
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The tiger among us: A Novel of Unrelenting Suspense (Wildside Mystery Classics)
3 editions - first published in 1957 -
The Nemesis from Terra
3 editions - first published in 1961 -
The Empire Strikes Back: A Storybook (Star Wars Series)
3 editions - first published in 1997 -
The Best of Leigh Brackett
3 editions - first published in 1977 -
The Coming of the Terrans
2 editions - first published in 1967 -
Alpha Centauri or Die!
2 editions - first published in 1963 -
Star wars
2 editions - first published in 1990 -
An Eye for an Eye: A Novel of Nightmare Revenge
2 editions - first published in 1957 -
The Reavers of Skaith
2 editions - first published in 1976 -
Star wars : the empire strikes back
2 editions - first published in 1998 -
Empire Strikes Back the Screenplay
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THE REAVERS OF SKAITH (Book of Skaith 3)
1 edition - first published in 1984 -
The Reavers of Skaith (The Book of Skaith, Vol. 3)
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THE HOUNDS OF SKAITH (Book of Skaith Vol 2)
1 edition - first published in 1984 -
Sea Kings of Mars and Otherwordly Stories
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The Ginger Star (Skaith #1)
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The starmen
1 edition - first published in 1952 -
Best of Planet Stories, No. 1
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Citizens awake!
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Between the Suns
1 edition - first published in 1991 -
13 West Street
1 edition - first published in 1962 -
Tiger Among Us
1 edition - first published in 1991 -
A World is Born
1 edition - first published in 2007 -
Planets of Wonder: A Treasury of Space Opera
1 edition - first published in 1976 -
Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back The Marvel Comics Version
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Stranger At Home
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Thieves' Carnival/the Jewel of Bas (Science Fiction Double, No 22)
1 edition - first published in 1990 -
Divide and Rule / The Sword of Rhiannon (Tor Double # 17)
1 edition - first published in 1990 -
Film Scripts One: Henry 5, Streetcar Named Desire, the Big Sleep
1 edition - first published in 1989 -
Stark and the Star Kings
1 edition - first published in 2005 -
The Secret of Sinharat and People of the Talisman
1 edition - first published in 1971 -
Lorelei of the Red Mist: Planetary Romances
1 edition - first published in 2007 -
The Book of Skaith: The Adventures of Eric John Stark
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People of the Talisman
1 edition - first published in 1964 -
Martian Quest: The Early Brackett
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Rio Bravo
1 edition - first published in 1959 -
The Halfling: And Other Stories
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Silent Partner
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Eric John Stark: Outlaw of Mars
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The Galactic Breed
1 edition - first published in 1955 -
Shannach - the Last
1 edition - first published in 2011 -
The Best of Leigh Brackett
1 edition - first published in 1977 -
Planet Stories Volume 4 Planet Stories Library
1 edition - first published in 2008 -
The empire strikes back
1 edition - first published in 1984

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Appendix N from Memakata
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wendy from wendy Boester
Alternative names
- LEIGH BRACKETT
- George Sanders
- Eric John Stark
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