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Ruth Laura Wainwright
A little-known science fiction writer remembered for a vivid, offbeat tale of small-town panic, she published work in the magazine world of the 1950s. Her surviving bibliography is slim, which gives her fiction an especially rare and curious appeal today.
1 Audiobook
Green Grew the Lasses
by Ruth Laura Wainwright
About the author
Ruth Laura Wainwright was an American writer best known for Green Grew the Lasses, a science fiction novella first published in Galaxy Science Fiction in July 1953. The story later found new readers through Project Gutenberg and audiobook communities, where its strange premise and period charm have helped keep it in circulation.
Reliable public records for her life are limited, but a memorial record identifies her as having lived from 1900 to 1986. Evidence available online suggests that only a small amount of her fiction is easily traceable today, including Green Grew the Lasses and a lesser-known story, Mint, in d/j.
That scarcity is part of what makes Wainwright interesting. She seems to be one of those magazine-era authors whose work survived more clearly than her biography, leaving behind a compact but intriguing footprint in mid-century speculative fiction.