Anne Inez McCaffrey (1926–2011) was an American-born Irish science fiction and fantasy writer. She is best known for featuring fierce female protagonists, most notably in her Dragonriders of Pern series, which spanned more than 20 books.
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, McCaffrey majored in Slavonic language and literature at Radcliffe and studied voice for nine years. She got married, had three children, got divorced in 1970, and immigrated to Ireland with the two youngest kids. For the rest of her life, she lived in County Wicklow in a home called ‘Dragonhold-Underhill’ that she designed herself.
McCaffrey began writing sci-fi in the late 1950s. She is best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series of books about the symbiotic relationship between humans and dragons. Her novella Weyr Search (1968) won the Hugo Award for Fiction and another novella, Dragonrider (1969,) won the Nebula Award.
McCaffrey was the first science fiction writer to make it onto the New York Times Bestseller list and did so with The White Dragon (1979,) the third volume in her Pern series. McCaffrey wrote dozens of novels and stories, grouped into ten other sci-fi series and two cookbooks.
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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
—Anne Mccaffrey
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