Anne McCaffrey : a life with dragons / Robin Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Robin, 1957-

Series:

Willie Morris books in memoir and biography.

Willie Morris books in memoir and biography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, American.

McCaffrey, Anne.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Anne McCaffrey: A Life with Dragons is the biography of a writer who vividly depicted alien creatures and new worlds. As the author of the Dragonriders of Pern series, McCaffrey (b. 1926) is one of the most significant writers of science fiction and fantasy. She is the first woman to win the Hugo and Nebula awards, and her 1978 novel The White Dragon was the first science-fiction novel to appear on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list. This biography reveals a fascinating and complex figure, one who creates and re-creates her fiction by drawing on life experiences. At various stages, M

Contents:

An Irish family heritage

Adolescence and a time of war

College days and marriage

Annie and Virginia

Emigration and a best-seller

Struggling with success

Being a fairy godmother

The grand master.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-235) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-48551-2

9786612485510

1-60473-299-7

OCLC:

646803333