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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