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__NOTOC__ Margaret St. Clair (17 February 1911 – 22 November 1995) was an American science fiction writer, who also wrote under the pseudonyms Idris Seabright and Wilton Hazzard. ==Biography== St. Clair was born in Hutchinson, Kansas. Her father, US Representative George A. Neeley, died when Margaret was seven, but left her mother well provided for. With no siblings, Margaret recalled her childhood as "rather a lonely and bookish one." When she was seventeen, she and her mother moved to California. In 1932, after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, she married writer Eric St. Clair. In 1934 she earned a Master of Arts in Greek Classics.〔Margaret St. Clair, "Wight in Space: An Autobiographical Sketch" in ''Fantastic Lives: Autobiographical Essays by Notable Science Fiction Writers'' edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Southern Illinois University Press, 1981, pp. 144-156.〕 The St. Clairs lived in a hilltop house with a panoramic view in what is now El Sobrante, California, where Margaret gardened and bred and sold dachshund puppies.〔Margaret St. Clair, ("Presenting the Author" ), ''Fantastic Adventures'', November 1946, p. 2.〕 In her rare autobiographical writings, St. Clair revealed few details of her personal life, but interviews with some who knew her indicate that she and her husband were well-traveled (including some visits to nudist colonies), were childless by choice, and in 1966 were initiated into Wicca by Raymond Buckland, taking the Craft names Froniga and Weyland.〔 Eric St. Clair worked variously as a statistician, social worker, horticulturist, shopfitter, and a laboratory assistant in the University of California at Berkeley Physics Department; he also published numerous short stories and magazine articles and was "perhaps the leading American writer of children's stories about bears, having sold close to 100 of them."〔Introduction to "Olsen and the Sea Gull" by Eric St. Clair, ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction,'' September 1964, page 41.〕 The St. Clairs eventually moved from El Sobrante to a house on the coast near Point Arena, "where every window had an ocean view."〔 Margaret survived her husband by several years. A lifelong supporter of the American Friends Service Committee, she spent her final years at (Friends House ) in Santa Rosa, California. She died in 1995. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Margaret St. Clair」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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