Clare Winger Harris

Clare Winger Harris
Clare Winger Harris, as pictured in the 1929 debut issue of Science Wonder Quarterly
Clare Winger Harris, as pictured in the 1929 debut issue of Science Wonder Quarterly
BornClare Winger
(1891-01-18)January 18, 1891
Freeport, Illinois
DiedOctober 26, 1968 (age 77)
Pasadena, California
NationalityAmerican
Period1923–1933
GenreScience fiction
SpouseFrank Clyde Harris
Children3
Cover of the April 1928 issue of Amazing Stories, which featured Clare Winger Harris's classic short story "The Miracle of the Lily."

Clare Winger Harris (January 18, 1891 – October 26, 1968[1]) was a pioneering science fiction writer whose short stories were published during the 1920s. She is credited as the first woman to publish stories under her own name in science fiction magazines.[2][3][4] Harris began publishing stories in 1926 and soon became popular with readers, with most of her fiction appearing in the influential magazine Amazing Stories.[1] She published a total of twelve stories, all but one of which were collected in 1947 as Away From the Here and Now; a full collection was not published until 2019 when The Artificial Man and Other Stories appeared. Her stories, which often feature strong female characters, have been reprinted in anthologies such as Library of America's The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women and Wesleyan University Press's Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction.

  1. ^ a b "Meet the Reclusive Woman Who Became a Pioneer of Science Fiction". Literary Hub. 2019-03-27. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
  2. ^ "Clare Winger Harris," The Future is Female!, Library of America, accessed March 18, 2024.
  3. ^ Donawerth, Jane (1990). "Teaching Science Fiction by Women". The English Journal (subscription required). 79 (3): 39–46. doi:10.2307/819233. JSTOR 819233.
  4. ^ Davis, Cynthia J.; West, Kathryn (1996). Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History. Oxford University Press. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-19-509053-6.