Doris Pitkin Buck (January 3, 1898 – December 4, 1980"Doris P(itkin) Buck." ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 31 July 2011.) was an American science fiction author. Born in

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, she graduated from

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in 1920 and

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with a master's degree in 1925. She was a stage actress before marrying architect, Richard Sutton Buck Jr. She taught English at

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and was a founding member of the

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. She published numerous science fiction stories and poems, many of them in ''

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''. Buck started published at fifty-four with her first story, "Aunt Agatha" in the October 1952 ''Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.'' Her story "The Little Blue Weeds of Spring" from the June 1966 issue was a nominee on the first ballot for the

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. Her story "Why They Mobbed the White House" appeared in

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's anthology '' Orbit 3'' (1968). Her story "The Giberel" appeared in

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's anthology ''

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'' (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

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's unpublished anthology '' The Last Dangerous Visions''.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''.

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