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Zenna Henderson was born Zenna Chlarson on November 1, 1917, in Tucson, Arizona, and died in 1983. She attended Arizona State University, receiving a BA in 1940 and an MA in 1954, and undertook a career in education. During World War II, she taught in a Japanese-American internment camp, marrying Richard Harry Henderson in 1943. Most of her career was spent teaching in schools throughout Arizona.

Her first short story, "Come on, Wagon!," was published in 1951 in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. One of a small number of women who published science fiction during the Golden Age of Science Fiction, Henderson concentrated on short stories, although some of the stories were later linked to form fix-up novels…