Leigh Douglas Brackett was born on December 7, 1915 in Los Angeles, California. She was appreciated as a writer and a screenwriter for cinema and television. Her most famous literary works are the ones set on Mars and her Eric John Stark series. She wrote or co-wrote the scripts for movies such as "The Big Sleep", "Rio Bravo", "Hatari!", "The Long Goodbye" and "The Empire Strikes Back". Leigh Brackett died of cancer on March 18, 1978.
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