Lee Hoffman

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Lee Hoffman (actually Shirley Bell Hoffman ; born August 14, 1932 in Chicago , Illinois ; † February 6, 2007 ) was an American writer of science fiction and western novels . From 1979 to 1983 she wrote historical and romantic novels under her pseudonym Georgia York .

Life

Lee Hoffman was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1932. The parents soon moved to Lake Worth , Florida . At college, which she graduated in 1951, she got her first theater experience and planned to play in the theater for the rest of her life. She started writing while she was in college, writing some science fiction novels for small magazines while working in her brother's radio business.

Career

From 1950 to 1953 she published the critically acclaimed science fiction fanzine Quandry , in 1955 she decided to go to the World Science Fiction Convention in Cleveland , where she met Larry T. Shaw , editor of the science fiction magazine Infinity . They married a year later in New York , even though they had only been in correspondence for the last year. After two years of marriage, the relationship broke up and they divorced, Hoffman stayed in New York City. Lee Hoffman has been a folk music lover since living in New York, and although she wasn't musical herself, she brought out folk magazines in the 1950s. Over time, your magazines were in great demand, ultimately also because the scene in New York was booming at the time and this content was in demand. She had problems with the fact that some people only bought her stories because she was a woman. She did not want to be treated any differently from a male author and named herself Lee Hoffman after a suggestion from her mother. She began writing western novels in the mid-1960s. At first she wasn't sure she could actually write western novels, but was persuaded to do so by two friends, Terry Carr and Ted White , who were themselves authors and publishers of books. Between 1966 and 1977 she wrote seventeen western novels. She also wrote four science fiction novels and in 1973 her novel The Valdez Horses was filmed as Wild Horses with Charles Bronson in the lead role. From 1979 to 1983 she wrote books under her pseudonym Georgia York .

Last years

In the last years of her life, Hoffman could no longer write. She passed the responsibility for her fanzines to her staff as she became blind. On February 6, 2007, she died of a severe heart attack.

bibliography

Western film

  • The Legend of Blackjack Sam (1966)
  • Gunfight at Laramie (1966) - German shots on the track 
  • Bred to Kill (1967) - Ger. A star for the outlaw
  • The Valdez Horses (1967) - German wild horses - filmed in 1973 with Charles Bronson
  • Dead Man's Gold (1968)
  • The Yarborough Brand (1968)
  • Return to Broken Crossing (1969) - German hour of the Schiesser
  • Wild Riders (1969) - the last rebel
  • West of Cheyenne (1969) - German The loner
  • Loco (1969) - German Loco, the bluffer
  • Wiley's Move (1973) - German The Wileys are coming
  • The Truth about the Cannonball Kid (1975)
  • Trouble Valley (1976) - German two men from Texas
  • Nothing but a Drifter (1976) - eng. The man from the Pecos
  • Fox (1976) - German The trickster
  • Sheriff of Jack Hollow (1977) - German dirty star
  • The Land Killer (1978) - German Dead Land

Historical novels

under the pseudonym Georgia York

  • Savage Key (1979)
  • Savannah Gray (1981)
  • Savage Conquest (1983)

Science fiction novels

  • Telepower (1967)
  • The Caves of Karst (1969)
  • Always the Black Knight (1970)
  • Change Song (1972)
  • Soundless Evening (1972)
  • The Third Nation (1993)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://gerisullivan.livejournal.com/84525.html
personal data
SURNAME Hoffman, Lee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoffman, Shirley Bell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 2007