Anne McCaffrey (1926 - 2011)
Famous Works Include: Dragonriders of Pern series, Acorna series, The Tower and Hive series, The Brain and Brawn series, The Crystal Singer series.
McCaffrey is an American-born Irish writer of fantasy and science-fiction. In 1968 McCaffrey's short story "Weyr Search," the first story in the Dragonriders of Pern series, won a Hugo Award for Best Novella. McCaffrey thus became the first woman to win a Hugo for fiction. In 1978 her novel The White Dragon was published and became the first hardcover science fiction novel to make The New York Times bestseller list.
Until her death in 2011, she lived in a house of her own design in County Wicklow, Ireland and called her home Dragonhold-Underhill.
Hope you've enjoyed this blast from the past from a 2008 edition of the
WCWC!
- Anna H.
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