Doris P. Buck
American science fiction author
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Doris Pitkin Buck (January 3, 1898[1] – December 4, 1980[2][3]) was an American science fiction author.[4]
January 3, 1898
Doris Pitkin Buck | |
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Doris Ellen Pitkin, from the 1920 yearbook of Bryn Mawr College | |
| Born | Doris Ellen Pitkin January 3, 1898 New York City |
| Died | December 4, 1980 (aged 82) |
| Education | |
| Occupations | Writer, actress, educator |
Born in New York City, she graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1920 and Columbia University with a master's degree in 1925.[3] She was a stage actress before marrying architect, Richard Sutton Buck Jr. She taught English at Ohio State University and was a founding member of the Science Fiction Writers of America.[3]
She published numerous science fiction stories and poems, many of them in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Buck started published at fifty-four with her first story, "Aunt Agatha" in the October 1952 Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.[4] Her story "The Little Blue Weeds of Spring" from the June 1966 issue was a nominee on the first ballot for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story.[5] Her story "Why They Mobbed the White House" appeared in Damon Knight's anthology Orbit 3 (1968). Her story "The Giberel" appeared in Robert Silverberg's anthology New Dimensions 1 (1971) and reappeared in Lloyd Biggle, Jr.'s Nebula Award Stories 7 (1972). Her story "Cacophony in Pink and Ochre" is one of the stories slated to appear in Harlan Ellison's unpublished anthology The Last Dangerous Visions.
Buck died at age 82 of a pulmonary embolism.[2] Her final publication was the poem "Travel Tip", published posthumously in the June 1981 issue of F&SF.[3]