Dust jacket illustration for Judgment Night by C. L. Moore, published in 1952 by Gnome Press.

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She was born on January 24, 1911 in Indianapolis, Indiana. She was chronically ill as a child and spent much of her time reading literature of the fantastic. She left college during The Great Depression to work as a secretary at the Fletcher Trust Company in Indianapolis. Her first stories appeared in pulp magazines in the 1930s, including two significant series in Weird Tales. One series concerns the rogue and adventurer, Northwest Smith, and his wanderings through the Solar System; the other is a short fantasy series about Jirel of Joiry (one of the first female protagonists in sword-and-sorcery fiction). The most famous of the Northwest Smith stories is "Shambleau", which marked Moore’s first professional sale. It appeared in the magazine in November, 1933, and the sale netted her a hundred dollars. The first and most famous of the Jirel of Joiry stories is "Black God’s Kiss", which received the cover illustration (painted by Margaret Brundage) in the October 1934 Weird Tales. Her early stories were notable for their emphasis on the senses and emotions, which was highly unusual at the time. January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... Location in the state of Indiana Coordinates: County Marion Founded 1821 Government  - Mayor Bart Peterson (D) Area  - City  372 sq mi (963. ... The Great Depression was a global economic slump that began in 1929 and bottomed in 1933. ... Pulp magazines, often called simply the pulps, were inexpensive text fiction magazines widely published in the 1920s through the 1950s. ... The 1930s (years from 1930–1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known in Europe as the World Depression. ... This page is about the fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine and its heirs. ... Northwest Smith is a fictional character, and the hero of a series of stories by science fiction writer C. L. Moore. ... Major features of the Solar System (not to scale; from left to right): Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, the asteroid belt, the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth and its Moon, and Mars. ... Smaug in his lair: an illustration for the fantasy The Hobbit Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ... Catherine Lucile Moore (January 24, 1911 - April 4, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. ... This article is about a fantasy sub-genre. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... In Weird Tales, Brundage illustrates Robert E. Howards Queen of the Black Coast, a story about Conan the Barbarian. ...

Moore's work also appeared in Astounding Science Fiction magazine throughout the 1940s. Several stories written for that magazine were later collected in her first published book, Judgment Night, published by Gnome Press in 1952. Included in that collection were “Judgment Night” (first published in August and September, 1943), the lush rendering of a future galactic empire with a sober meditation on the nature of power and its inevitable loss; “The Code” (July, 1945), an homage to the classic Faust with modern theories and Lovecraftian dread; “Promised Land” (February, 1950) and “Heir Apparent” (July, 1950) both documenting the grim twisting that mankind must undergo in order to spread into the solar system; and “Paradise Street” (September, 1950), a futuristic take on the Old West conflict between lone hunter and wilderness-taming settlers. Astounding Stories was a seminal science fiction magazine founded in 1930. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Gnome Press was a US small-press publishing company primarily known for being the first to publish Isaac Asimovs Foundation Trilogy, and for bringing Robert E. Howards Conan the Barbarian stories back from pulp obscurity. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Faust depicted in an etching by Rembrandt van Rijn (circa 1650) Faust or Faustus is the protagonist of a popular German legend in which a mediæval scholar makes a pact with the Devil. ... Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction. ... The cowboy, the quintessential symbol of the American Old West, circa 1887. ...

Moore met Henry Kuttner, also a science fiction writer, in 1936 when he wrote her a fan letter (mistakeningly thinking that "C. L. Moore" was a man), and they married in 1940. Afterwards, almost all of their stories were written in collaboration under various pseudonyms, most commonly “Lewis Padgett”. (Another pseudonym, one Moore often employed for works that involved little or no collaboration, was "Lawrence O’Donnell".) In this very prolific partnership they managed to combine Moore's style with Kuttner's more cerebral storytelling. Their stories include the now-classic "Mimsy were the Borogoves" (the basis for the film The Last Mimzy) and "Vintage Season". They also collaborated on a story that combined Moore’s signature characters, Northwest Smith and Jirel of Joiry: "Quest of the Starstone" (1937). After Kuttner's death in 1958, Moore wrote almost no fiction. She did write for a few television shows under her married name, but upon marrying Thomas Reggie (who was not a writer) in 1963, she ceased writing entirely. Henry Kuttner (April 7, 1915 - February 4, 1958) was a science fiction author born in Los Angeles, California. ... Lewis Padgett was the joint pseudonym of the science-fiction authors and spouses Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore. ... Mimsy Were The Borogoves is a short story (now being made into a feature-length film titled The Last Mimzy) by Lewis Padgett originally published in 1943. ... This article or section contains a plot summary that is overly long. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ...

C. L. Moore died on April 4, 1987 at her home in Hollywood, California after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that extends from Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue...

Partial bibliography

• Earth's Last Citadel (with Henry Kuttner; 1943)
• Vintage Season (with Henry Kuttner, as "Lawrence O'Donnell"; 1946) - filmed in 1992 as Grand Tour: Disaster In Time [1]
• The Mask of Circe (with Henry Kuttner; 1948)
• Beyond Earth's Gates (1949)
• Judgment Night (1952)
• Northwest of Earth (stories, 1954)
• No Boundaries (with Henry Kuttner; stories, 1955)
• Doomsday Morning (1957)
• Jirel of Joiry (1969)
• The Best of C. L. Moore, edited by Lester Del Rey. Nelson Doubleday, 1975. Contains an autobiographical afterword by C. L. Moore, and a biographical introduction by Del Rey, which is carefully noncommittal about the influence of her personal life on her writing.

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External links

• A more detailed biography of C.L. Moore
• More biographical information, and discrepancies in records
• C. L. Moore at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database