Lee Hawkins Garby

Lee Hawkins Garby
BornLee Hawkins
20 February 1890[1]
Missouri, United States
Died10 May 1957[2]
GenreSpace opera
Notable worksThe Skylark of Space

Lee Hawkins Garby (1890–1957) was the co-author with Edward Elmer Smith of the 1928 serial novel The Skylark of Space, the first science fiction story in which humans left the solar system. She was the wife of Dr. Carl DeWitt Garby, a friend of Smith's from college at the University of Idaho.

The novel was first published as a book in 1946, as The Skylark of Space: The Tale of the First Inter-Stellar Cruise (Buffalo Book Company(?)), naming Garby and Smith on the title page but Smith alone on the cover[3] —with frontispiece by Charles Schneeman. The Library of Congress catalogs it as "by Edward E. Smith, in collaboration with Mrs. Lee Hawkins Garby"; publisher Southgate Press.[4] A revised edition by Smith alone was published by Pyramid Books in 1958 and reissued many times.[5][6] From 2007 the original by Garby and Smith has been in print again.[3][5]

  1. ^ [United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files ]
  2. ^ [United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files]
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference isfdb was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Library of Congress LCCN Permalink for 46016816". Lccn.loc.gov. Retrieved 2015-02-23.
  5. ^ a b Smith, Edrward E. Formats and Editions of The skylark of space. Worldcat.org. OCLC 2087101.
  6. ^ "Library of Congress LCCN Permalink for 75000427". Lccn.loc.gov. Retrieved 2015-02-23.