Anne McCaffrey: A Life With Dragons
by Robin Roberts
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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 show more figure, one who creates and re-creates her fiction by drawing on life experiences. At various stages, M show lessTags
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- Fiction and Literature, Biography & Memoir, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PS3563 .A255 .Z846 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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- English
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