Anne McCaffrey
Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction and the first to win a Nebula Award. Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list.
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Background
- Born in
- Cambridge
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityRadcliffe CollegeStuart Hall SchoolMontclair High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Balrog Awards🏆 Hugo Award for Best Novella🏆 Eurocon🏆 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award
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Trending topics shown first"Exchange information, learn to speak sensibly about any subject, learn to express your thoughts, accept new ones, examine them, analyze. Think objectively. Think toward the future."
"Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims. They can be survivors but I don't as a rule put "messages" in my writing."
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Timeline
1926
Born
Birth2011
Died
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