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Garby, Lee HawkinsWe have 1 book for this author.Lee Hawkins Garby (1892 - 1953) was the coauthor with Edward Elmer Smith of the first version The Skylark of Space, the first science fiction story in which humans left the solar system. (Her coauthor credit was removed for the second edition.) She was the wife of Dr. Carl DeWitt Garby, a friend of Dr. Smith’s from college at the University of Idaho. Additional information and references are contained at Dr. Smith’s article. Doctor Garby was born in Lewiston, Idaho in 1892, the son of Charles Henry Garby (born Germany) and Adelaide Laventia Strickland (born New York)[1], and after graduating from Lewiston Normal School in 1910 was a classmate with Dr. Smith in the Class of 1914 at the University of Idaho in Chemical Engineering.[2] In 1919 Dr. Garby was working for the Bureau of Chemistry in Washington DC.[3] Mrs. Garby was born in Missouri in 1892 and died 1953.[4] The Garby's had a daughter born in mid-1918; the impact of Mrs. Garby's pregnancy and daughter's birth, and the apparently simultaneous pregnancy of Jeannie Smith and birth of Roderick, in the midst of the end of Dr. Smith's studies and his World War I service, on the completion of the Skylark manuscript is unknown.[5] Ms. Garby is acknowledged in some circles as an early female writer of general fiction, but little is known of her life and she made no known contributions to the field beyond her involvement with Skylark.
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