Murray Leinster was the pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (1896–1975), an American writer of genre fiction, especially science fiction. He published more than 1,500 short stories and articles over a long career. His work appeared in pulp magazines and helped connect early speculative storytelling with the later science-fiction magazine and paperback markets.
Leinster wrote stories, novels, and articles across multiple genres, but he is particularly remembered for inventive science-fiction premises and accessible adventure. Among his best-known stories is “A Logic Named Joe,” an early imagining of networked personal computers. He received the first Hugo Award for Best Novelette for “Exploration Team” in 1956.