11 Facts About Murray Leinster

Murray Leinster was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of science fiction.

Murray Leinster wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.

Murray Leinster continued to be published regularly in Argosy into the 1950s.

Murray Leinster's work has appeared frequently in other genre pulps such as Detective Fiction Weekly and Smashing Western, as well as Collier's Weekly beginning in 1936 and Esquire starting in 1939.

Four years before Jack Williamson's The Legion of Time came out, Murray Leinster published his "Sidewise in Time" in the June 1934 issue of Astounding.

In 2000, Murray Leinster's heirs sued Paramount Pictures over the film Star Trek: First Contact, claiming that it infringed their trademark in the term.

Murray Leinster was so prolific a writer that Groff Conklin, when reviewing Operation: Outer Space in March 1955, noted that it was his fourth novel of 1954 and that another would be reviewed in the next month.

Murray Leinster continued publishing in the 1950s and 1960s, appearing in Galaxy Magazine and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, as well as The Saturday Evening Post.

Murray Leinster won a Hugo Award for his 1956 story "Exploration Team".

Murray Leinster's career included tie-in fiction based on several science fiction TV series: an episodic 1960 novel, Men into Space, was derived from the series' basic concepts, but Murray Leinster had little knowledge of the series' actual content, and none of the book episodes bear any relationship to the filmed episodes.

Murray Leinster appeared in September 1953 on an episode of the educational series American Inventory, in which he discussed the possibility of space travel.