Literary Birthday – 1 April – Anne McCaffrey
Anne McCaffrey was born on 1 April 1926 and died on 21 November 2011.
Anne McCaffrey Quotes
- A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.
- Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
- Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
- I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.
- That’s what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
Anne McCaffrey was an Irish writer of speculative fiction, best known for the Dragonriders of Pern series, which began with Dragonflight. 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 was one of the first science-fiction books 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 in 2006. She also received the Robert A. Heinlein Award for her work in 2007. McCaffrey considered ‘most of her work science fiction and enjoyed “cutting them short when they call me a ‘fantasy’ writer”. ‘ McCaffrey also published two short-story collections, several romances, and children’s books. Her non-fiction work includes two cookbooks and a book about dragons in general, A Diversity of Dragons.
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