Archive of Our Own

Bio

As of 7/19/23 these pages are maintained by the author's son, Paul Gadzikowski.
5/11/24: Claire Gabriel has passed away at the age of 91.

5/11/24: Shooting the Moon (La Femme Nikita [1997]) now posted.

Still to come to these pages are The Porcelain of Twilight and Home Before Home, further works in the Simple Gifts universe.
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Ms. Gabriel's first two published short stories won third place in two consecutive years in Seventeen magazine's short story contest for teenagers. Four more short stories later appeared in Seventeen, Ladies Home Journal, and two religious magazines.

Her novel, Bernadette Black (ISBN: 0517505916), was published in hard cover (Crown Publishers, now the Crown Group, 1973), and in paperback (Manor Books, 1973).

A novelette, Ni Var, was included in the Star Trek anthology The New Voyages (Bantam Books, 1976).

Professional non-fiction appeared in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association and several other peer-reviewed journals. Earlier, three articles on baby- and child-care sold to appropriate commercial venues.

While working full time as a single parent, and after enthusiastic reception of Ni Var by fans of the original Star Trek television series, Ms. Gabriel became involved in the worldwide Star Trek fan fiction-writing phenomenon documented by Camille Bacon-Smith in her front-page article in the New York Times Sunday Book Review (November 16, 1986) and subsequently in Ms. Bacon-Smith's book Enterprising Women (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992).