| Intro | American science fiction author |
| Was | Poet |
| From | United States of America |
| Type | Literature |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 1 January 1898, New York City |
| Death |
1 January 1980 (aged 82 years) |
Doris Pitkin Buck (January 3, 1898 – December 4, 1980) was an American science fiction author.
Born in New York City, she graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1920 and Columbia University with a master’s degree in 1925. She was a stage actress before marrying Richard Buck. She taught English at Ohio State University and was a founding member of the Science Fiction Writers of America.
She published numerous science fiction stories and poems, many of them in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Her story “The Little Blue Weeds of Spring” from the June 1966 issue was a nominee on the first ballot for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story. Her story “Why They Mobbed the White House” appeared in Damon Knight’s anthology Orbit 3 (1968). Her story “The Giberel” appeared in Robert Silverberg’s anthology New Dimensions 1 (1971) and reappeared in Lloyd Biggle, Jr.’s Nebula Award Stories 7 (1972). Her story “Cacophony in Pink and Ochre” is one of the stories slated to appear in Harlan Ellison’s unpublished anthology The Last Dangerous Visions.
Buck died at age 82 of a pulmonary embolism. Her final publication was the poem “Travel Tip”, published posthumously in the June 1981 issue of F&SF.