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Leslie F. Stone

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Leslie F. Stone

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Full Name: Leslie Francis Silberberg
Born: June 8, 1905
Philadelphia, USA
Died: March 21, 1991
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Nationality: American
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Biography

Leslie Frances Silberberg, known by the pen name Leslie F. Stone, was an American writer and one of the first women science fiction pulp writers, contributing over 20 stories to science fiction magazines between 1929 and 1940.

Born Leslie Frances Rubenstein in 1905 in Philadelphia to George Rubenstein and Lillian Spellman Rubenstein (a well known poet and author from the turn of the century). Stone married William Silberberg, a reporter, in 1927 with whom she had two sons they raised in the Washington, D.C. area where later in life she won prizes as a gardener and ceramist.

Stone worked at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland after the death of her husband in 1957. She returned to writing by editing and republishing Out of the Void as a stand alone novel, in 1971. In 1974 Stone published Day of the Pulps, about her time publishing in the 1920s and 1930s.


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 Non Series Works

 (1967)