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. 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 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 Her story "Cacophony in Pink and Ochre" is one of the stories slated to appear in Harlan Ellison's unpublished anthology The Last Dangerous Visions.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. References External links Doris Pitkin Buck at The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction 1898 births 1980 deaths 20th-century American poets American science fiction writers American women short story writers American women poets Bryn Mawr College alumni Columbia University alumni Ohio State University faculty Writers from New York City Women science fiction and fantasy writers American women novelists 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American short story writers Novelists from New York (state) Novelists from Ohio American women academics