author
Ruth Laura Wainwright
A little-known mid-century writer whose surviving work hints at a sharp imagination and a taste for the uncanny. She is best remembered today for a small body of speculative fiction that still finds new readers through public-domain and audiobook editions.
1 Audiobook
Green Grew the Lasses
by Ruth Laura Wainwright
About the author
Very little biographical information about Ruth Laura Wainwright is easy to confirm, which makes her one of those intriguing authors who seem to survive mainly through the stories themselves. Reliable catalog and library records link her to Green Grew the Lasses, a short work that later entered Project Gutenberg and other public-domain collections.
She also appears in bibliographic records for science-fiction and fantasy magazines of the 1950s. Those records connect her with Green Grew the Lasses in Galaxy Science Fiction in July 1953 and Mint, in d/j in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in June 1954, suggesting a brief but memorable presence in classic genre publishing.
A memorial record identifies her as living from 1900 to 1986. Beyond that, the details are scarce, but her work has endured well enough to be preserved, cataloged, and recorded for modern listeners.