![]() ![]() The film, starring Humphrey Bogart and written by Leigh Brackett, William Faulkner, and Jules Furthman, is considered one of the best movies ever made in the genre. Hollywood director Howard Hawks was so impressed by this novel that he had his secretary call in "this guy Brackett" to help William Faulkner write the script for The Big Sleep (1946). Her first novel, "No Good from a Corpse", published in 1944, was a hard-boiled mystery novel in the tradition of Raymond Chandler. Her first published science fiction story was "Martian Quest", which appeared in the February 1940 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. Leight Brackett was born in Los Angeles, California. ![]() The last was a departure for Brackett, since until then, all of her science fiction had been in the form of novels and short stories rather than screenplays. ![]() Leigh Brackett (DecemMarch 18, 1978), although best known for her fantasy and science fiction, also wrote mystery novels and Hollywood screenplays, most notably "The Big Sleep" (1945), "Rio Bravo" (1958) and "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) She received the Hugo award posthumously for this in 1981. What is Leigh Brackett doing on the official Cordwainer Smith website? She was awarded the 2005 Cordwainer Smith Foundation Rediscovery Award. ![]()
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