Murray Leinster

Murray Leinster
Born	William Fitzgerald Jenkins (1896-06-16)June 16, 1896 Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Died	June 8, 1975(1975-06-08) (aged 78) Gloucester, Virginia, United States
Pen name	Murray Leinster, William Fitzgerald, Louisa Carter Lee, Will F. Jenkins, Fitzgerald Jenkins
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer
Nationality	American
Genre	Fantasy, science fiction, horror fiction, mystery fiction, Western fiction, pulp fiction
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Murray Leinster was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975), 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.