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The character "Sheriff Leigh Brackett" in John Carpenter's successful independent horror film Halloween (1978) was named after her.

A noted science-fiction/fantasy author who was prolific in SF and other pulps in the 1940s; a mentor and sometime collaborator of Ray Bradbury.

Died of cancer after writing the first version of the script of Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980). Because it was an unfinished script, George Lucas revised her draft and engaged Lawrence Kasdan to finish the screenplay. It is unclear how many of her original ideas made it into the final script (the "Wampa" was called an "ice creature", the Tauntauns were "snow lizards", and Yoda was named Buffy), but Lucas gave her credit on the screenplay, while he himself is uncredited for his work on the screenplay itself and only is credited as writing the story of Empire.

Because her first name was not obviously feminine, her fans thought that she was a man in the early 1940s.

Howard Hawks thought Leigh Brackett was a good writer because according to him she wrote "like a man".