A Murray Leinster Short Story Reader

by Murray Leinster

Overview

A
MURRAY LEINSTER
SHORT STORY READER


1. The Devil of East Lupton, Vermont
2. Regulations
3. The Seven Temporary Moons
4. Space Can
5. If You Was a MOKLIN
6. From Beyond The Stars

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798823188500
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	01/30/2023
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.10(d)

About the Author

Murray Leinster (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975) was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, 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.

Leinster was born in Norfolk, Virginia, the son of George B. Jenkins and Mary L. Jenkins. His father was an accountant. Although both parents were born in Virginia, the family lived in Manhattan in 1910, according to the 1910 Federal Census. A high school dropout, he nevertheless began a 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 in the May 1916 issue of H. L. Mencken's literary magazine "The Smart Set." Over the next three years, Leinster published ten more stories in the magazine; in a September 2022 interview, Leinster's daughter stated that Mencken recommended the use of a pseudonym for non-Smart Set content.