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| Anne McCaffrey
ISBN: 9781604732993
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University Press of Mississippi
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Novelists American;
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 (1926-2011) was one of the most significant writers of science fiction and fantasy. She was 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 created and re-created her fiction by drawing on life experiences. At various stages, McCaffrey was a beautiful young girl who refused to fit into traditional gender roles in high school, a restless young mother who wanted to write, an American expatriate who became an Irish citizen, an animal lover who dreamed of fantasy worlds with perfect relationships between humans and beasts, and a wife trapped in an unhappy marriage just as the women's movement took hold.
Author Robin Roberts conducted interviews with McCaffrey, her children, friends, and colleagues, and used archival correspondence and contemporary reviews and criticism. The biography examines how McCaffrey's early interests in theater, Slavonic languages and literature, and British history, mythology, and culture all shaped her science fiction. The book is a nuanced portrait of a writer whose appeal extends well beyond readers of her chosen genre.
Robin René Roberts was born on November 23, 1960. She received a degree in communications from Southeastern Louisiana University in 1983. She is a television broadcaster and anchor of ABC's morning show Good Morning America. In 2007, she was diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer. In 2012, she was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome, a disease of the bone marrow. ESPN awarded its Arthur Ashe Courage Award to Roberts at the 2013 ESPYs. She has written several nonfiction works including Basketball the Right Way, From the Heart: Seven Rules to Live By, and Everybody's Got Something. (Bowker Author Biography) |
