Doris Baumgardt

Leslie Perri (died 1970) was the pen name of Doris Marie Claire "Doë" Baumgardt, or Doris Baumgardt, an American science fiction fan, writer, and illustrator. She was an early member of the Futurians, the influential science fiction fan club started in 1938. She was a founding member of the Fantasy Amateur Press Association (FAPA). Baumgardt was married to two science fiction writers, first to Frederik Pohl (m. Aug. 1940), and later to Richard Wilson.

Damon Knight quotes some of her writing for early SF zines in his history of the group, The Futurians.

Publications

• "Space Episode" (1941) - Future Combined with Science Fiction, Dec. 1941 issue
• "In the Forest" (1953)
• "Under the Skin" (1956) (also titled "The Untouchables")

further reading

• wikipedia
• ISFDB