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
1949
A World Is Born
1941
The 16th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®
77 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Stories
2021
Black Amazon of Mars
1951
Lorelei of the Red Mist
1946
The Stellar Legion
2011
The Secret of Sinharat
1964
Eric John Stark
Outlaw of Mars
1982
The Mercurian
Three Tales of Eric John Stark
2019
The Long Tomorrow
1955
People of the Talisman
1964
Sea-Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories
2005
The Nemesis from Terra
1961
The Road to Sinharat
1963
Martian Quest
2002
The Coming of the Terrans
1967
Rio Bravo
2023
The Jewel of Bas
2011
Bifrost n°105
Leigh Brackett
2022
The Best of Leigh Brackett
1955
Alpha Centauri or Die!
1963
The Big Jump
1955
The Tiger Among Us
1958
Outpost on Io
2011
Shannach
The Last
2011
The Starmen of Llyrdis
1952
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
2018
The Ginger Star
1974
Stark et les rois des étoiles (e-Bélial')
2014
The Citadel of Lost Ships
1943
Shadow Over Mars
1951
Shannach - The Last
Farewell to Mars
2011
Planet Stories 1949 Fall (Vol 4 #4) Enchantress of Venus
1949
Black Amazon of Mars and Other Works
2012
The Hounds of Skaith
1974
Lorelei of the Red Mist
Planetary Romances
1991
The Best of Leigh Brackett
1977
Black Amazon of Mars
2010
The Sword of Rhiannon
1949
The Vanishing Venusians
1945
The Reavers of Skaith
1976
No Good From a Corpse
1943
Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1942
1942
Thralls of the Endless Night
2011
The Last Days Of Shandakor
1952
The Dragon-Queen of Venus
2011
The Big Jump
1955
Los Angeles Noir 2
The Classics
2010
Leigh Brackett Super Pack
2020
Follow the Free Wind
1963
The Beast-Jewel of Mars
2011
Terror Out Of Space
2011
Child of the Sun
2011
The Halfling and Other Stories
1955
