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This article is about the American woman writer born in 1911; for earlier men with similar names, see Lee Richmond, Leigh Richmond Roose, Leigh Richmond Miner, Leigh Richmond Brewer; or Legh Richmond.
Leigh Richmond
Born
Ruth Leigh Tucker

April 21, 1911
Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedJuly 14, 1995 (age 84)
Clyde, North Carolina, U.S.
Other namesLeigh Richmond-Donahue
OccupationWriter
RelativesCharles Wertenbaker (brother-in-law)
Timberlake Wertenbaker (niece)

Leigh Tucker Richmond (April 21, 1911 – July 14, 1995), also known as Leigh Richmond-Donahue, was an American writer.

Early life and education

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Tucker was born in Pennsylvania and raised in Montana, Louisiana, Kentucky, and Georgia, one of the five daughters of Royal Kenneth Tucker and Juliet Luttrell Tucker.[1] Her father was an Episcopalian clergyman.[2] She attended Sophia Newcomb College in New Orleans.[3] Her sister Lael Tucker Wertenbaker was a writer and journalist.[4]

Career

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Richmond worked as a reporter, photographer, and editor at smaller newspapers, including at the Brevard Sentinel and the Englewood Herald.[5] She and her third husband Walt Richmond ran the Centric Foundation and the Richmond-Rohde Press, focused on unconventional ideas in science and education. Their co-authored stories and novels reflect some of the same interests.[6]

Richmond taught at the Florida Institute of Technology.[7] The Richmonds spoke at a 1976 Star Trek fan convention in Florida.[8] She served on the Brevard Local Government Study Commission,[9] but resigned in 1980, in protest over plans for a regional water authority.[10] In 1993, she spoke at a school in Olympia, Washington, and billed herself as a "physicist and anthropologist".[11]

Publications

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  • "Prologue to an Analogue" (1961)[12]
  • Field effect : The pi phase of physics (1993)[13]

With Walt Richmond

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  • Where I Wasn't Going (1963; also published in 1976 as Challenge the Hellmaker)
  • "Shortsite", "Shortstack" "Poppa Needs Shorts", "The Pie-Duddle Puddle", "Gallagher's Glacier", and "I, BEM" (1964, with Walt Richmond)
  • "Cows Can't Eat Grass" (1967)
  • Shock Wave (1967)
  • The Lost Millennium (1967)[14]
  • "If the Sabot Fits..." (1968)
  • Phoenix Ship (1969)
  • "Shorts Wing" (1970)
  • Positive Charge (1970 story collection)[15]
  • Gallagher's Glacier (1970)[15][16]
  • "Antalogia" (1973)
  • "Song of the Space Cadets" (1975, poem)
  • Probability Corner (1977)
  • Phase Two (1980)
  • Siva! A Science Fiction Novel of the Far Past (2018, a posthumous publication)

With R. C. Fitzpatrick

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  • "There is a Tide" (1968)

With Dick Richmond-Donahue

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  • Blindsided (1993)

Personal life

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Tucker married four times, and had three children. She married her first husband, businessman George Sinclair Loane, in 1933.[3] Walter Forbes Richmond, her third husband, died in 1977. She married her fourth husband, city official Richard V. Donahue, in 1979.[17] Richmond died in 1995, at the age of 84, in Clyde, North Carolina.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Obituary for Juliet Luttrell Tucker". The Courier-Journal. 1968-02-02. p. 28. Retrieved 2024-07-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Former Rector of Two Macon Churches Dies". The Macon News. 1968-01-08. p. 6. Retrieved 2024-07-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ a b "Ruth Tucker Wedding in Georgia Wednesday". The Picket-Journal. 1933-07-06. p. 5. Retrieved 2024-07-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Nemy, Enid (1997-03-29). "Lael Wertenbaker, 87, Author Who Wrote of Husband's Death". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
  5. ^ Fay, Jack (1966-12-12). "Planning Council's Patricia Tucker Named to PR Society of America". The Orlando Sentinel. p. 17. Retrieved 2024-07-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "SFE: Richmond, Leigh". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
  7. ^ a b "Leigh R. Donahue". Asheville Citizen-Times. 1995-07-16. p. 14. Retrieved 2024-07-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Borlin, Janet (1976-04-12). "'Star Trekkers' Rally to Glory of 'Enterprise'". Florida Today. pp. 3B. Retrieved 2024-07-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Group Juggles Charter Hot Potato". Florida Today. 1980-01-28. pp. 3B. Retrieved 2024-07-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Water authority gaining support". The Orlando Sentinel. 1980-05-04. p. 375. Retrieved 2024-07-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Calendar listing". The Olympian. 1993-10-01. p. 64. Retrieved 2024-07-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ Richmond, Leigh (1961). "Prologue to an Analogue". Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
  13. ^ Donahue, Leigh Richmond (1993). Field effect : -the pi phase of physics. Internet Archive. Maggie Valley, NC : Centric Foundation ; Lakemont, Ga. : Dimensional Sciences. ISBN 978-0-943975-04-7.
  14. ^ "Twice Told Tale Fails". Northwest Arkansas Times. 1967-12-29. p. 7. Retrieved 2024-07-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ a b "Newest Titles in Paperbacks". Springfield Leader and Press. 1970-05-17. p. 21. Retrieved 2024-07-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ Richmond, Walt; Richmond, Leigh (2019-10-22). Gallagher's Glacier. Wildside Press. ISBN 978-1-4794-4597-4.
  17. ^ Salamon, Milt (1979-11-21). "Instead of Bounced Out, Rusty is Upped". Florida Today. pp. 2B. Retrieved 2024-07-17 – via Newspapers.com.
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