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Ann Warren Griffith

A sharp, funny voice from mid-century magazines, she moved easily between humorous essays and science fiction. Her best-known stories imagine futures warped by consumer culture, advertising, and everyday absurdity.

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Zeritsky's Law

Zeritsky's Law

by Ann Warren Griffith

About the author

Ann Warren Griffith was an American writer remembered for witty magazine pieces and a small but striking body of science fiction. Sources agree that she wrote humorous essays as well as fiction, and that her work appeared in venues including The New Yorker, with later listings also connecting her to Galaxy Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

During World War II, she was part of the Women Airforce Service Pilots program, an experience that stands out in accounts of her life. Bibliographic sources identify two of her best-known science fiction stories as Zeritsky's Law (1951) and Captive Audience (1953), both of which continued to be anthologized long after their first publication.

Some biographical details vary between sources, including her birth year, so it is safest to say that she was born in Newton, Massachusetts, studied at Barnard College, and died in 1983. Even with a modest published output, she has earned a lasting place among rediscovered women writers of classic science fiction.