Mari Wolf

Mari Wolf (born August 27, 1927) was an American science fiction writer and magazine columnist.

She is credited with the first use of the word "droid" for a robot, in a science fiction story.

[1] Wolf worked in the aerospace industry in Southern California,[1] and was described as a "calculating-machine operator" at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1955.

[3] She wrote a monthly column about fandom, including fan conventions and fanzines.

[8] Mari Wolf married fellow science fiction writer Rog Phillips in 1951, in Chicago.

Mari Wolf