Elizabeth Chater

Elizabeth Eileen Chater (pen name, Lee Chaytor; August 22, 1910 – November 10, 2004)[1] was a Canadian writer of novels and poetry, and a professor at San Diego State University.

At a time when women were not encouraged to seek higher education, she attended the University of British Columbia at sixteen.

Returning to Toronto, where he worked for the YMCA, they started their family of three children: Elizabeth Patricia, Eve Lynn, and Kerry Michael.

Under the pseudonym Lee Chaytor, she published several stories in the popular science fiction magazine Fantastic Universe.

It was there that she began a pioneering effort by teaching a course in Science Fiction Creative Writing with Greg Bear as her teacher's assistant.

After the death of her husband in 1978, and with the help of her former student and great friend Greg Bear, she formed a partnership with the New York literary agent Richard Curtis.