Murray Leinster | |
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Born | William Fitzgerald Jenkins June 16, 1896 Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. |
Died | June 8, 1975 Gloucester, Virginia, U.S. | (aged 78)
Pen name | Murray Leinster, William Fitzgerald, Louisa Carter Lee, Will F. Jenkins, Fitzgerald Jenkins |
Occupation | Novelist, short story writer |
Nationality | American |
Genre | Fantasy, science fiction, horror fiction, mystery fiction, Western fiction, pulp fiction |
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Murray Leinster (/ˈlɛnstər/) was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975), an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.