Margins
Leigh Brackett profile picture
Leigh Brackett
Author · 54 books

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. Several of these early efforts were read by Henry Kuttner, who critiqued her stories and introduced her to the SF personalities then living in California, including Robert Heinlein, Julius Schwartz, Jack Williamson, Edmond Hamilton - and another aspiring writer, Ray Bradbury. In 1944, based on the hard-boiled dialogue in her first novel, No Good From a Corpse, producer/director Howard Hawks hired Brackett to collaborate with William Faulkner on the screenplay of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep. Brackett maintained an on-again/off-again relationship with Hollywood for the remainder of her life. Between writing screenplays for such films as Rio Bravo, El Dorado, Hatari!, and The Long Goodbye, she produced novels such as the classic The Long Tomorrow (1955) and the Spur Award-winning Western, Follow the Free Wind (1963). Brackett married Edmond Hamilton on New Year's Eve in 1946, and the couple maintained homes in the high-desert of California and the rural farmland of Kinsman, Ohio. Just weeks before her death on March 17, 1978, she turned in the first draft screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back and the film was posthumously dedicated to her.

Series

Books

Queen of the Martian Catacombs book cover

Queen of the Martian Catacombs

1949

A World Is Born book cover

A World Is Born

1941

The 16th Science Fiction MEGAPACK® book cover

The 16th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®

77 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Stories

2021

Black Amazon of Mars book cover

Black Amazon of Mars

1951

Lorelei of the Red Mist book cover

Lorelei of the Red Mist

1946

The Stellar Legion book cover

The Stellar Legion

2011

The Secret of Sinharat book cover

The Secret of Sinharat

1964

Eric John Stark book cover

Eric John Stark

Outlaw of Mars

1982

The Mercurian book cover

The Mercurian

Three Tales of Eric John Stark

2019

The Long Tomorrow book cover

The Long Tomorrow

1955

People of the Talisman book cover

People of the Talisman

1964

Sea-Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories book cover

Sea-Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories

2005

The Nemesis from Terra book cover

The Nemesis from Terra

1961

The Road to Sinharat book cover

The Road to Sinharat

1963

Martian Quest book cover

Martian Quest

2002

The Coming of the Terrans book cover

The Coming of the Terrans

1967

Rio Bravo book cover

Rio Bravo

2023

The Jewel of Bas book cover

The Jewel of Bas

2011

Bifrost n°105 book cover

Bifrost n°105

Leigh Brackett

2022

The Best of Leigh Brackett book cover

The Best of Leigh Brackett

1955

Alpha Centauri or Die! book cover

Alpha Centauri or Die!

1963

The Tiger Among Us book cover

The Tiger Among Us

1958

Outpost on Io book cover

Outpost on Io

2011

Shannach book cover

Shannach

The Last

2011

The Starmen of Llyrdis book cover

The Starmen of Llyrdis

1952

The Nemesis from Terra/Battle for the Stars book cover

The Nemesis from Terra/Battle for the Stars

1989

The Future is Female! Women's Science Fiction Stories from the Pulp Era to the New Wave book cover

The Future is Female! Women's Science Fiction Stories from the Pulp Era to the New Wave

2018

The Ginger Star book cover

The Ginger Star

1974

Stark et les rois des étoiles (e-Bélial') book cover

Stark et les rois des étoiles (e-Bélial')

2014

The Citadel of Lost Ships book cover

The Citadel of Lost Ships

1943

Shadow Over Mars book cover

Shadow Over Mars

1951

Shannach - The Last book cover

Shannach - The Last

Farewell to Mars

2011

Planet Stories 1949 Fall (Vol 4 #4) Enchantress of Venus book cover

Planet Stories 1949 Fall (Vol 4 #4) Enchantress of Venus

1949

Black Amazon of Mars and Other Works book cover

Black Amazon of Mars and Other Works

2012

The Hounds of Skaith book cover

The Hounds of Skaith

1974

Lorelei of the Red Mist book cover

Lorelei of the Red Mist

Planetary Romances

1991

The Best of Leigh Brackett book cover

The Best of Leigh Brackett

1977

Black Amazon of Mars book cover

Black Amazon of Mars

2010

The Sword of Rhiannon book cover

The Sword of Rhiannon

1949

The Vanishing Venusians book cover

The Vanishing Venusians

1945

The Reavers of Skaith book cover

The Reavers of Skaith

1976

No Good From a Corpse book cover

No Good From a Corpse

1943

Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1942 book cover

Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1942

1942

Thralls of the Endless Night book cover

Thralls of the Endless Night

2011

The Last Days Of Shandakor book cover

The Last Days Of Shandakor

1952

The Dragon-Queen of Venus book cover

The Dragon-Queen of Venus

2011

The Big Jump book cover

The Big Jump

1955

Los Angeles Noir 2 book cover

Los Angeles Noir 2

The Classics

2010

Leigh Brackett Super Pack book cover

Leigh Brackett Super Pack

2020

Follow the Free Wind book cover

Follow the Free Wind

1963

The Beast-Jewel of Mars book cover

The Beast-Jewel of Mars

2011

Terror Out Of Space book cover

Terror Out Of Space

2011

Child of the Sun book cover

Child of the Sun

2011

The Halfling and Other Stories book cover

The Halfling and Other Stories

1955

548 Market St PMB 65688, San Francisco California 94104-5401 USA
© 2025 Paratext Inc. All rights reserved