Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American-Irish writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series.
29 Facts About Anne McCaffrey
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Anne McCaffrey was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction and the first to win a Nebula Award.
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Anne McCaffrey was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on 17 June 2006.
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Anne McCaffrey received the Robert A Heinlein Award for her work in 2007.
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Anne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the second of three children of Anne Dorothy and Col.
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Anne McCaffrey had two brothers: Hugh and Kevin Richard McCaffrey.
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Anne McCaffrey's father had Irish and English ancestry, and her mother was of Irish descent.
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Anne McCaffrey attended Stuart Hall, and graduated from Montclair High School in Montclair, New Jersey.
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Anne McCaffrey served a term as secretary-treasurer of the Science Fiction Writers of America from 1968 to 1970.
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Anne McCaffrey immigrated to Ireland with her two younger children in 1970, weeks after filing for divorce.
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Anne McCaffrey had had two short stories published during the 1950s.
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Anne McCaffrey said "she thought of the story when wishing herself alone, like a lady in an ivory tower".
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Anne McCaffrey then wrote two more "Ship" stories and began her first novel.
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Anne McCaffrey explained that it did not require a sequel; it "served its purpose of an intelligent, survivor-type woman as the protagonist of an s-f story".
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Anne McCaffrey made a fast start in Ireland, completing for 1971 publication Dragonquest and two Gothic novels for Dell, The Mark of Merlin and The Ring of Fear.
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Editor Roger Elwood sought short contributions for anthologies, and Anne McCaffrey started the Pern story of Menolly.
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Anne McCaffrey delivered "The Smallest Dragonboy" for $154, and four stories which later became The Crystal Singer.
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Anne McCaffrey completed Menolly's story as Dragonsong and contracted for a sequel before its publication in 1976.
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Editor Campbell requested "to see dragons fighting thread [the menace from space]", and suggested time travel; Anne McCaffrey incorporated both suggestions.
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Anne McCaffrey wrote A Time When, which would become the first part of The White Dragon.
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Anne McCaffrey said of her collaborations with son Todd Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, "While I would dearly love to have the energy to tell a tale all on my own, I really cannot say that I am not ably represented with my collaborations".
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Anne McCaffrey gave Todd and his sister Gigi permission to write their own stories set in the Pern universe.
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Anne McCaffrey collaborated with author Mercedes Lackey to write The Ship Who Searched, the third of seven books in The Ship Who Sang series by Anne McCaffrey and four other authors, and the only one by Lackey.
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Anne McCaffrey wrote with Elizabeth Moon for the series 'The Planet Pirates'.
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Anne McCaffrey died at age 85 on 21 November 2011 at her home in Ireland, following a stroke.
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Anne McCaffrey considered most of her work science fiction and enjoyed "cutting them short when they call me a 'fantasy' writer".
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Anne McCaffrey was widely quoted as saying that Restoree was intended as a "jab" at how women were usually portrayed in science fiction.
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Several of Anne McCaffrey's series are set in a universe governed by the "Federated Sentient Planets".
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Anne McCaffrey published two short-story collections, several romances and young-adult fantasies.