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C. L. Moore

1911 – 1987

Catherine Lucille Moore was an influential and much admired writer of fiction for pulp serials; her first story appeared in Weird Tales in 1933. She worked extensively with John W. Campbell, Jr. She had two characters for whom she wrote multiple stores, Northwest Smith and Jirel Of Joiry (a female ruler of a land something like medieval France but with magic).
From 1940 until his death in 1958, she was married to fellow author Henry Kuttner. They wrote for pulp serials together under many pen names, including Lawrence O'Donnell and Lewis Padgett. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction calls her "the better half of their partnership."

C.L. Moore