Anne McCaffrey
(1926-2011)
American-Irish novelist
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Anne Inez McCaffrey (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011) was an American-Irish 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.
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1 April 1926 Cambridge, Massachusetts
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| Died |
21 November 2011 (aged 85) Dragonhold-Underhill, County Wicklow, Ireland
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| Zodiac | Aries |
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