author
Clare Winger Harris
1891–1968
A trailblazing early science fiction writer, she helped open the pulp magazines to women writing under their own names. Her stories mixed big imaginative ideas with a sharp interest in science, machines, and the edges of what it means to be human.
2 Audiobooks
Persephone of Eleusis: A Romance of Ancient Greece
by Clare Winger Harris
The artificial man
by Clare Winger Harris
About the author
Born in Freeport, Illinois, on January 18, 1891, Clare Winger Harris became one of the earliest women to make a name for herself in American science fiction. She is widely credited as the first woman to publish science fiction in U.S. genre magazines under her own name, and she began appearing in print in the 1920s, when the field was still taking shape.
Her fiction was published in magazines including Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, and Science Wonder Quarterly. Readers and later critics have noted her interest in futuristic technology, strange transformations, and characters living at the borders between human and machine. Although her publishing career was relatively brief, her work left a lasting mark on early science fiction.
Harris died on October 26, 1968. Today she is remembered as a pioneer whose stories helped broaden the possibilities of who could write science fiction—and what science fiction could be.