"Lee Hoffman", born "Shirley Bell Hoffman", was an American Science fiction fandom/science fiction fan, an Editing/editor of early folk music fanzines, and an author of science fiction, Western (genre)/Western and romance novel/romance novels.

In 1950-53, she edited and published the highly regarded science fiction fanzine, Quandry.

Hoffman won the Western Writers of America Spur Award for her novel The Valdez Horses (Doubleday, 1967). In Spain, John Sturges directed the 1973 film adaptation, The Valdez Horses/Valdez, il Mezzosangue (aka Chino), starring Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland. Under the pseudonym "Georgia York", she wrote historical romances for Fawcett Publications/Fawcett Books during the years 1979 to 1983.

In her autobiographical writings, she described the mid-1960s events that led to her Western novels:

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As long as I get to the finish line, that's all that counts.

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I flew in this morning and am trying to get home to Tampa now. I got stuck in it this morning, too.

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