Working name of US writer Eloise Katherine Engle Paananen (1923-1993). Her sf novel, Countdown for Cindy (1962), is a light Space Opera whose heroine, an Aerospace Force nurse, becomes the first American woman to visit the Moon. [JC/DRL]

Eloise Katherine Engle Paananen

born Seattle, Washington: 12 April 1923

died July 1993

works

• Countdown for Cindy (New York: C S Hammond and Co, 1962) [hb/]

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