WRITER

Leigh Brackett

1915 - 1978

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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." 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 her the first woman ever shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, and, along with C. L. Moore, one of the first two women ever nominated for a Hugo Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leigh Brackett has received more than 709,684 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Leigh Brackett is the 4,182nd most popular writer (down from 3,893rd in 2019), the 5,527th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,250th in 2019) and the 449th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 710k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Long Tomorrow
1955
The Ginger Star
Fiction in English, Space colonies, Kidnapping
An Eric John Stark Adventure Volume 1 of the "Book of Skaith"
1975
No good from a corpse
1944
Follow the Free Wind
African American trappers, Fiction, African American pioneers
1963
The Sword of Rhiannon
Time travel, Fiction
1953
The Big Jump
Space flight, Fiction, Large type books
1955

Page views of Leigh Bracketts by language

Over the past year Leigh Brackett has had the most page views in the with 90,492 views, followed by Italian (4,569), and German (4,364). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (292.34%), Catalan (64.55%), and Ukrainian (54.16%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Leigh Brackett ranks 4,182 out of 7,302. Before her are Philoxenus of Mabbug, Lydia Chukovskaya, Sahar Khalifeh, Rachid Boudjedra, Miyamoto Yuriko, and René Depestre. After her are Louise Erdrich, William Langland, Sonny Barger, Garsenda, Countess of Forcalquier, Frans Michael Franzén, and Almudena Grandes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Leigh Brackett ranks 165. Before her are Wee Kim Wee, Alykul Osmonov, Garrett Hardin, Hasse Ekman, Derek Prince, and Edmond Leburton. After her are Alan Lomax, Julio César Méndez Montenegro, Harry Morgan, John C. Lilly, Ann Sheridan, and Kenneth Arnold. Among people deceased in 1978, Leigh Brackett ranks 155. Before her are Theo Lingen, Kathleen Kenyon, Zenta Mauriņa, Gordon Matta-Clark, Alfred Müller-Armack, and Eric Frank Russell. After her are Léon Damas, Mary Blair, Theodor Tolsdorff, Duncan Grant, Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi, and Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leigh Brackett ranks 5,527 out of 20,380. Before her are John Mellencamp (1951), Randy Jackson (1961), Frederick Townsend Ward (1831), Frank Thomas (1912), Peggy Whitson (1960), and Raoul Trujillo (1955). After her are Louise Erdrich (1954), Wallace Clement Sabine (1868), Tammy Wynette (1942), Billy Cox (1939), Sonny Barger (1938), and Lee Falk (1911).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Leigh Brackett ranks 449. Before her are Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906), Kathy Acker (1947), Glen A. Larson (1937), Nicholas Pileggi (1933), Hart Crane (1899), and Conrad Aiken (1889). After her are Louise Erdrich (1954), Sonny Barger (1938), Ida B. Wells (1862), Theodore Roszak (1933), Charlaine Harris (1951), and Erica Jong (1942).

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