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Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 24, 1978) was an American science fiction writer known as "the Queen of Space Opera." [1] She wrote the screenplays for The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Long Goodbye (1973).
Leigh Brackett. Writer: Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back. Leigh Douglass Brackett was born in 1915 in Los Angeles. She was the author of numerous short stories and books regarding science fiction and has been referred to as the Queen of Space Opera.
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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.
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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Leigh Brackett has 397 books on Goodreads with 43360 ratings. Leigh Brackett’s most popular book is The Long Tomorrow.
Leigh Douglass Brackett was an American science fiction writer known as "the Queen of Space Opera." She wrote the screenplays for The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Long Goodbye (1973).
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Although advertised as forthcoming in 2015, the two titles «The Book of Stark» and «The Leigh Brackett Centennial» were never published. She was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2014.
