author
Lee Hawkins Garby
1892–1953
An early voice in science fiction, she helped shape one of the genre's landmark space adventures. Her name is closely tied to The Skylark of Space, a story remembered for sending human characters beyond the Solar System.
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The Skylark of Space
by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith, Lee Hawkins Garby
About the author
Lee Hawkins Garby was an American writer best known as the co-author, with E. E. Smith, of The Skylark of Space. First published as a serial in Amazing Stories in 1928, the novel is widely remembered as a pioneering work of space opera and as one of the first science-fiction stories to carry humans beyond the Solar System.
Sources consulted during this search agree that Garby collaborated on the early manuscript of The Skylark of Space, though they do not agree on every biographical detail. Some references list her life dates as 1892–1953, while others give slightly different dates, so it is safest to say that she was active in the early decades of twentieth-century American science fiction.
Her role in the history of the novel has drawn lasting interest because later editions did not always preserve her credit as clearly as the original publication did. Even so, she remains an important figure in the beginnings of modern interstellar adventure fiction.