Leslie F. Stone, born Leslie Frances Silberberg on June 8, 1905, was a pioneering American writer who became one of the first women to publish in science fiction pulp magazines. Writing under her pen name, she successfully entered a heavily male-dominated literary field during the late 1920s, establishing herself as an important early voice in the genre's history.
Over the course of her active writing career, which spanned from 1929 to 1940, Stone contributed more than twenty stories to various science fiction periodicals. Her contributions during this formative era of speculative fiction helped pave the way for future generations of female authors in the field. She passed away on March 21, 1991, leaving behind a legacy as a trailblazer of early American science fiction.
