Elma Wentz
(December 12, 1906 — November 1, 1971)
Elma Wentz (née Elma Langhorne Miller, later Elma LeCron) was a Los Angeles writer best known for having co-authored a story, "Beyond Doubt," with Robert A. Heinlein, published in Astonishing Stories in April 1941 under the pen name "Lyle Monroe and Elma Wentz." She was later an habitué of The Pinckard Salon.
Wentz spent most of her career working for various movie studios, including Warner Brothers, as a secretary and later a story analyst. She was arrested and jailed briefly for her involvement in a writers' strike.
Born in Tacoma, Washington, she attended the University of Washington and moved to the Los Angeles area in the mid-1930s. She attended political gatherings at the Heinleins' house. She married and divorced twice, first, in 1937, to Roby Wentz (a writer who also published some science fiction), and later to Leslie LeCron.
- Bibliography at ISFDB.
- “Who is Elma ‘Miller’ Wentz?” by Dave Hook.
- Brief obituary of Elma by Forry Ackerman, Luna Monthly (December 1971, page 11).
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