Leigh Richmond
American writer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American writer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leigh Tucker Richmond (April 21, 1911 – July 14, 1995), also known as Leigh Richmond-Donahue, was an American writer.
Leigh Richmond | |
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Born | Ruth Leigh Tucker April 21, 1911 Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Died | July 14, 1995 (age 84) Clyde, North Carolina, U.S. |
Other names | Leigh Richmond-Donahue |
Occupation | Writer |
Relatives | Charles Wertenbaker (brother-in-law) Timberlake Wertenbaker (niece) |
Tucker was born in Pennsylvania and raised in Montana, Louisiana, Kentucky, and Georgia, one of the five daughters of Royal Kenneth Tucker and Juliet Luttrell Tucker.[1] Her father was an Episcopalian clergyman.[2] She attended Sophia Newcomb College in New Orleans.[3] Her sister Lael Tucker Wertenbaker was a writer and journalist.[4]
Richmond worked as a reporter, photographer, and editor at smaller newspapers, including at the Brevard Sentinel and the Englewood Herald.[5] She and her third husband Walt Richmond ran the Centric Foundation and the Richmond-Rohde Press, focused on unconventional ideas in science and education. Their co-authored stories and novels reflect some of the same interests.[6]
Richmond taught at the Florida Institute of Technology.[7] The Richmonds spoke at a 1976 Star Trek fan convention in Florida.[8] She served on the Brevard Local Government Study Commission,[9] but resigned in 1980, in protest over plans for a regional water authority.[10] In 1993, she spoke at a school in Olympia, Washington, and billed herself as a "physicist and anthropologist".[11]
Tucker married four times, and had three children. She married her first husband, businessman George Sinclair Loane, in 1933.[3] Walter Forbes Richmond, her third husband, died in 1977. She married her fourth husband, city official Richard V. Donahue, in 1979.[17] Richmond died in 1995, at the age of 84, in Clyde, North Carolina.[7]