Anne McCaffrey passed away this week in Ireland at home after suffering a stroke aged 85. She was the daughter of a retired Army Colonel. During WWII, Anne attended Stuart Hall, a girls' boarding school in Staunton, Virginia, while her father was in Europe. She graduated from Montclair High School and, in 1947, graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College with a major in Slavonic Languages and Literature.
Anne helped usher in a new era for women writers of science-fiction and fantasy by being the trailblazer into this mainly male arena.
She was the first to be given a Hugo Award in 1968 and a Nebula Award one year later. She was also the first woman with a science fiction title on The New York Times Best Seller list in 1978, with "The White Dragon.". Extremely prolific, she published nearly 100 books, mainly fiction, starting in 1967. She emigrated to Ireland (from America) in 1970. McCaffrey was also a large collaborator. Up until 1990, she co-authored more than 30 books -- 15 with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. She also co-wrote with Margaret Ball, Mercedes Lackey, Elizabeth Moon, Jody Lynn Nye and S. M. Stirling. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted her June 17, 2006.
Anne will be greatly missed in the Sci-fi arena; however her work will live on for generations to come. May she Rest In Peace.
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