Fritz Leiber Papers ca. 1930 - 1996

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Fritz Leiber Papers ca. 1930 - 1996

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Fritz Leiber produced stories in the fantasy, science, horror, and supernatural fiction genres from the mid 1930s until his death in 1992. Leiber was best known for the heroic characters of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser that he created with Harry Otto Fischer. The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, diaries, photographs, and other materials.

Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries

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Leiber, Fritz, 1910-1992

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Fritz Leiber was born in Chicago, Illinois December 24, 1910 . He attained a Ph. D. from the University of Chicago in 1932. He served as an Episcopal minister, a Shakespearian actor, an editor, and a writing instructor. In 1943, his work began appearing in Weird Tales and Unknown Worlds . Leiber is well-known and well regarded in the field. His novels, Conjure Wife, Gather, Darkness, A Specter is Haunting Texas, the Silver Eggheads, and his stories and novels of Lankhmar are all popular favorite...

Leiber, Fritz

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Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was born in Chicago on December 24, 1910 to Shakespearean actors Fritz Leiber, Sr. and Virginia Bronson Leiber. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1932 with a degree in psychology and physiology, and, in 1936, married Jonquil Stephens, a British poet with similar interests in the supernatural. They had one son, Justin Leiber, in 1938. Several years after Jonquil's death in 1969, he married Margo Skinner. His employment throughout the years includ...