caption movement death_date birth_name birth_place imagesize nationality birth_date period spouse genre image article_title name occupation
e mayne hull c. 1946 golden age of science fiction 20 january 1975 edna mayne hull brandon , manitoba , canada 200px canadian 1 may 1905 1939 -- 1969 -lrb- science fiction -rrb- a. e. van vogt -lrb- 1939 -- 1975 -rrb- science fiction file : e_mayne_hull_1946 . jpg edna mayne hull
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edna mayne hull

edna mayne hull -lrb- may 1 , 1905 , -- january 20 , 1975 -rrb- was a science fiction writer who published under the name e. mayne hull .
she was the first wife of a. e. van vogt , also a science fiction writer .
she was born in brandon , manitoba .
after working as a private secretary in alberta , she moved back to winnipeg , where she met her future husband .
hull and van vogt got married on may 9 , 1939 , shortly before his first story `` black destroyer '' was published .
for most of her husband 's writing career , hull was his typist .
after typing out many of his stories in the early 1940s , she began to get ideas for her own .
under her husband 's guidance , she wrote several stories and one novel , all of which appeared in `` astounding science fiction '' and `` unknown worlds '' ; as well as several acknowledged collaborations with her husband .
when the ` artur blord ' stories , and `` the winged man '' serial , were novelised , it was done with the input of van vogt himself who was then content he explains in his book `` reflections of a. e. van vogt '' to add his own name as co-author .
it has been claimed , however , that all of her fiction was actually penned by her husband .
hull died of cancer on january 20 , 1975 .
