Murray Leinster

Murray Leinster is the pen name of a renowned American novelist named Willam Fitzgerald Jenkins, who was popular for writing alternate history and science fiction literature. His areas of work were mainly based on the horror fiction, fantasy, pulp fiction, science fiction, western fiction, and mystery fiction genres. Throughout the years of his career as a writer, Leinster had written and published over 1,500 articles and short stories, hundreds of television plays and radio scripts, and 14 film scripts. Leinster was born on June 16, 1896, in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. His father, George Jenkins, worked as an accountant, while his mother, Mary Jenkins, was a housewife. Even though both of Leinster’s parents were from Virginia by birth, the family moved to Manhattan in 1910.