Leigh Douglass Brackett was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of William Franklin and Margaret Douglass Brackett. On 31 December 1946 she married science-fiction writer Edmond Hamilton. During the later years of their marriage, which was childless, they lived in Kinsman, Ohio, maintaining a winter residence in Lancaster, California, where Brackett died in 1978. Edmond Hamilton had died one year before on 1 February 1977. Although Brackett's first love was science fiction, her first full-length novel was a suspense thriller, No Good from a Corpse, published in 1944, the same year in which she collaborated with Jules Furthman and William Faulkner on the screenplay of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep (1946). She wrote only three more suspense novels during her career: An Eye for an Eye, The Tiger Among Us, both appearing in 1957, and Silent Partner, published in 1969. But between 1944 and 1977 she produced fourteen volumes of science fiction. In 1957 Brackett won the Jules Verne...