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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
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