Bio:Leslie F. Stone

Born Leslie Francis Rubenstein in 1905, the daughter of Lillian Spellman, she married William Silberberg in 1927. In the 1960s she worked at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda. A short biographical sketch of her appears in "Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction 1926-1965", by Eric Leif Davin (2006). Her work is also discussed in:  "Paul's" blog Batya Weinbaum's "Sex-Role Reversal in the Thirties: Leslie F. Stone's The Conquest of Gola", in Science Fiction Studies #73 (V. 24, #3), Nov. 1997) Feminist SF. 