Leigh Brackett

Leigh Brackett was an American author and screenwriter, nicknamed the Queen of Space Opera by science fiction readers. Her novel The Long Tomorrow imagines a future America scarred by nuclear devastation, where a young man named Len finds a relic that pushes him to question a community built on fear of the past. She also wrote The Sword of Rhiannon, a fantasy adventure, while in Hollywood she was best known for her work with director Howard Hawks on Westerns and crime films. Brackett died in 1978.