Zenna Henderson

Zenna Chlarson Henderson was an American science fiction and fantasy novella and short story author, and an elementary school teacher. Henderson was born in 1917 in Tucson, Arizona, the daughter of Louis Rudolph Chlarson and Emily Vernell Rowley. She received a bachelor of arts in education from Arizona State College in 1940, and taught school in the Tucson area. She also taught in France, as well as to Japanese-American children in a Japanese relocation camp in Sacaton, Arizona, during World War II. She married Richard Harry Henderson in 1943, but they were divorced seven years later.... Henderson was one of the first female science fiction authors, and never used a male pen name. Although her work could not be considered feminist, Henderson was one of the few writers in the 1950s and 1960s writing science fiction from a female perspective. She began reading science fiction at age 12 from magazines such as Astounding Stories, Amazing Stories, and fantasy from Weird Tales. The standard reference Contemporary Authors lists her religion as Methodist, though there is no known record of her being a member of any Methodist church.
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