Murray Leinster
Sign in to saveAlso known as William Fitzgerald Jenkins, William Fitzgerald, Louisa Carter Lee, Will F. Jenkins, Fitzgerald Jenkins
novelist, short story writer (1896–1975)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 16 June 1896
- Died
- 8 June 1975
- Works
- 16
Top works
- The gamblin' kid
- The Murder of the U.S.A.
- The brain-stealers
- Doctor to the stars
- Three stories
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- Listeners
- 66
- Total plays
- 771
Murray Leinster (June 16, 1896 - June 8, 1975) was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. He wrote and published over 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays. Leinster was born in Norfolk, Virginia. He began his career as a freelance writer before World War I; he was two months short of his 20th birthday when his first story, "The Foreigner", appeared
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Jenkins
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Norfolk
- Place of death
- Gloucester County
- Occupation
- science fiction writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- World War I
- Genre
- science fiction
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military branch
- United States Army
- Official website
- www.sfsite.com/~silverag/leinster.html
- Image
- "Space Platform", by Murray Leinster (portrait photograph).jpg
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- Commons category
- Murray Leinster
- date of birth
- 1896-06-16
- date of death
- 1975-06-08
- pseudonym
- Murray Leinster
- writing language
- English language
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