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Anne McCaffrey (Anne Inez McCaffrey) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 1, 1926. She attended Radcliffe College, receiving a BA in 1947. She has three children, Alec (1952); Georgeanne (1959); and Todd (1956), with whom she has collaborated on a number of books.

Her first story, published in 1953, was "Freedom of the Race," which appeared in the magazine Science Fiction Plus. Her first novel, Restoree, was published in 1967.

Her fiction combines adventure, romance, and fantasy, with fast-moving plots, likeable characters, and easy-to-read prose. She has received numerous awards, including the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and been named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America.

Her immense popularity rests on her series fiction, which include the Crystal Singer series, the Dinosaur Planet series, the Talents series, the Doona series, the Powers series, the Freedom series, and the Acorna series. Two series are of special note. The Ship series, which began with a story published in Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1961, "The Ship Who Sang," came to encompass several novels and involve several coauthors, two of whom (Jodi Lynn Nye and S. M. Stirling) went on to produce solo novels in the setting. McCaffrey's flagship series is the World of Pern.

McCaffrey first breathed life into the Dragonriders of Pern with her short story "Weyr Search" in Analog in 1967, which tied with "Riders of the Purple Wage" by Philip José Farmer for the Hugo Award for Best Novella. But Pern was far too grand an imagining to be limited to a novella. At twenty books and counting, the Dragonriders have flown a lot of missions through the thread-filled air, defending their world from the ravaging spores of the Red Star.

Since 1970, McCaffrey has made her home in Ireland.

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