Dorothy De Courcy

Dorothy de Courcy, often called “Dot,” was active in West Coast science fiction fandom in the 1940s and 1950s, beginning in Portland and later working in California. Reference sources on speculative fiction describe her as both a fan and a professional writer during the pulp-magazine era.

She is best remembered for science fiction stories written with John de Courcy, including works such as Goma’s Follicles, Rat Race, and The Night Has a Thousand Eyes. Their fiction appeared in magazine markets of the period and has remained accessible through later bibliographic and public-domain collections.

Reliable biographical details about her life are limited in the sources I could confirm, so this portrait stays focused on the part of her career that is documented: a contributor to classic mid-century science fiction and a participant in the fandom community that helped sustain it.