Ruth Laura Wainwright

Ruth Laura Wainwright appears to have been a mid-century science fiction writer whose published work is now quite hard to trace. Reliable public sources found here point to one confirmed story, Green Grew the Lasses, which was published in the July 1953 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction and later made available through Project Gutenberg.

A second story, Mint, in d/j, is associated with the June 1954 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in reader and catalog references, but beyond that, biographical details about her life remain scarce. Because so little verified information is readily available, she stands out as one of those intriguing authors who briefly appeared in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s and then largely vanished from the record.

That scarcity is part of her appeal today. Readers who discover Wainwright usually meet her through Green Grew the Lasses, a playful, unusual story that has helped keep her name alive even though so much about the person behind it is still unknown.