Re: RARA-AVIS: Leigh Brackett

blumenidiot (blumenidiot@email.msn.com)
Tue, 6 Apr 1999 20:35:50 -0500 Anita wrote:
> As I learned from this group, Leigh Brackett was the first woman to write
a
> hard-boiled detective novel in the style popularized by Chandler and his
> pulp contemporaries.
>
introoduction is by Ray Bradbury (who I understand was one of her
> students),
>
That figures. She also wrote a lot of sf and fantasy. She was married to
Edmond Hamilton who was one of the big name writers of that genre in the
30's and 40's.
Mark Blumenthal

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