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Anne McCaffrey
1926–2011·American
Anne McCaffrey was an American-Irish science fiction and fantasy author born on April 1, 1926, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who became one of the genre's most celebrated voices. She is best known for the Dragonriders of Pern series, a sweeping saga set on a distant planet where humans bond telepathically with dragons to defend their world. McCaffrey made history as the first woman to win both a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award for fiction, and she continued writing until her death in Ireland on November 21, 2011.
