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Anne McCaffrey
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Anne McCaffrey (1926–2011) was an American and Irish writer, novelist, and science fiction author. Born in Cambridge, she was educated at Radcliffe College and Harvard University. Her notable works include *Dragonriders of Pern* and *The Ship Who Sang*. She wrote in the speculative fiction genre and published 193 works.
McCaffrey received several awards, including the Margaret Edwards Award, Hugo Award for Best Novella, Nebula Award for Best Novella, and the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award. She was the mother of Todd McCaffrey. She died of a stroke in Newcastle and was buried in Wicklow.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1 April 1926
- Died
- 21 November 2011
- Works
- 193
Top works
- Science fiction tales
- Nimisha's ship
- ha-Draḳon ha-lavan
- Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold
- Shirat ha-gevishim
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Country
- Ireland
- Active from
- 1926
- Active to
- 2011
Discography
- Sunset's Gold2008
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 586
- Total plays
- 26,383
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Anne+McCaffrey">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,438x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,612x
- Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes
· 2002 · cited 16,047x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,951x
- Molecular portraits of human breast tumours
· 2000 · cited 12,720x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.”
- “Drummer, beat, and piper, blow, Harper, strike, and soldier, go. Free the flame and sear the grasses Till the dawning Red Star passes.”
- “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.”
- “When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute accepts misfortune and endeavors to survive, mature, and improve because of it.”
- “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.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Anne Inez McCaffrey , ( 1926-04-01 ) 1 April 1926, Cambridge, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Died
- 21 November 2011 (2011-11-21) (aged 85), Dragonhold-Underhill, County Wicklow , Ireland
- Occupation
- Writer
- Nationality
- American & Irish (naturalised citizen)
- Period
- 1965–2011
- Genre
- Science fiction, romance
- Notable works
- Restoree , Dragonriders of Pern , The Ship Who Sang
- Spouse
- Horace Wright Johnson (divorced)
- Children
- 3, including Todd
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Anne Inez McCaffrey (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011) 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 (Best Novella, Weyr Search, 1968) and the first to win a Nebula Award (Best Novella, Dragonrider, 1969). Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list.
In 2005 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its 22nd Grand Master, an annual award to living writers of fantasy and science fiction. She was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on 17 June 2006. She also received the Robert A. Heinlein Award for her work in 2007.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anne McCaffrey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.