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Leslie Perri
1920–1970
A lively early voice in science fiction fandom, she moved easily between writing, illustrating, and editing. Her work sits close to the beginnings of the Futurians and the energetic magazine culture that helped shape modern SF.
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Under the Skin
by Leslie Perri
About the author
Leslie Perri was the pen name of Doris Marie Claire "Doë" Baumgardt, an American writer, illustrator, and science fiction fan born in Brooklyn in 1920. She became part of New York’s famous Futurians while still young, and she was also involved in early fan publishing as a founding member of the Fantasy Amateur Press Association.
Although her professional fiction output was small, she left a distinct mark through stories, artwork, and editorial work. Sources on her career note that she contributed to fanzines and had work appear in science fiction magazines, while also editing the romance pulp Movie Love Stories during the early 1940s.
Perri’s name often comes up in accounts of the first generation of organized science fiction fandom, alongside figures who later became major genre names. She died in 1970 at just 49, but her writing continues to be remembered through later anthologies and histories of women in early science fiction.