McCaffrey immigrated to Ireland with her two younger children in 1970, weeks after filing for divorce. In addition to handcrafting the Nebula Award trophies, her responsibilities included production of two monthly newsletters and their distribution by mail to the membership. McCaffrey served a term as secretary-treasurer of the Science Fiction Writers of America from 1968 to 1970. They moved to Sea Cliff, Long Island in 1965, and McCaffrey became a full-time writer. Įxcept for a short time in Düsseldorf, the family lived for most of a decade in Wilmington, Delaware. They had three children: Alec Anthony, born 1952 Todd, born 1956 and Georgeanne ("Gigi", Georgeanne Kennedy), born 1959. In 1950 she married Horace Wright Johnson (died 2009), who shared her interests in music, opera and ballet.
In 1947 she graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College with a degree in Slavonic languages and Literature. She attended Stuart Hall (a girls' boarding school in Staunton, Virginia), and graduated from Montclair High School in Montclair, New Jersey. Her father had Irish and English ancestry, and her mother was of Irish descent. She had two brothers: Hugh ("Mac", died 1988) and Kevin Richard McCaffrey ("Kevie"). Life and career Īnne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the second of three children of Anne Dorothy (née McElroy) and Col. She was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on 17 June 2006. In 2005 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its 22nd Grand Master, an annual award to living writers of fantasy and science fiction. Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction (Best Novella, Weyr Search, 1968) and the first to win a Nebula Award (Best Novella, Dragonrider, 1969). Restoree, Dragonriders of Pern, The Ship Who SangĪnne Inez McCaffrey (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011) was an American-Irish writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. Dragonhold-Underhill, County Wicklow, Ireland
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