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  1. Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 24, 1978) was an American science fiction writer known as "the Queen of Space Opera ." [1] She was also a screenwriter, known for The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Long Goodbye (1973). She worked on an early draft of The Empire Strikes Back (1980), elements of which remained in ...

  2. Leigh Brackett was a prolific and influential science fiction author and screenwriter, known for her work on The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo, and Star Wars. She died in 1978 and was posthumously honored with the Nebula Grand Master Award in 2018.

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  3. The mentor to Ray Bradbury, a masterful storyteller of limitless imagination, exquisite writing skills and quite an impressive range, Leigh Brackett was ahead of her time just as she was ahead of most of her colleagues. What we’ve prepared for you today is a rare conversation Brackett had in 1974 with Starlog Magazine, four years before her ...

  4. May 21, 2021 · Learn how sci-fi legend Leigh Brackett shaped the sequel to Star Wars with her script, which introduced Yoda, Lando, and the ice planet Hoth. See the handwritten notes and crossed out lines from her original draft, which differed from the final film in some ways.

  5. Brackett, Leigh. Entry updated 11 March 2024. Tagged: Author. (1915-1978) US scriptwriter and author, for most of her career deeply involved in the writing of fantasy and sf, for which she perhaps remains best known, though her detective novels and her 16 film and television scenarios have been justly praised. Her film work includes screenplays ...

  6. Leigh Douglass Brackett was an American science fiction writer known as "the Queen of Space Opera." She was also a screenwriter, known for The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Long Goodbye (1973). She worked on an early draft of The Empire Strikes Back (1980), elements of which remained in the film; she died before it went into production. In 1956, her book The Long Tomorrow made ...

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  8. 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.

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