Anne McCaffrey: Science Fiction Storyteller (People to Know)

Trachtenberg, Martha P.

ISBN 10: 0766011518 ISBN 13: 9780766011519

Publisher: Enslow Pub Inc, 2001

Synopsis

Discusses the life and work of the science fiction author best known for her works about the dragons of the planet Pern and their riders.

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Gr 6-9-Anyone who reads McCaffrey's novels cannot help but be curious about what influenced her to create such wonderful worlds. Trachtenberg has the answers. In this biography of the first woman to win the Hugo Award, readers are given a tremendous amount of personal insight through quotations, black-and-white photographs, and remembrances from friends and family. McCaffrey began writing science fiction during a time when it was thought that women were unequipped to deal with science. Devoted to her craft, she took courses in physics and consulted with specialists to assure that her science was accurate. This brief, well-organized title will be popular with readers already familiar with her work, and it is sure to encourage those who are not to seek it out. Libraries that already own Todd McCaffrey's book about his mother, Dragonholder (Del Rey, 2001), will want to add this title to their collection as it provides some extra details.

Michele Capozzella, Chappaqua Public Library, NY

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From Booklist:

Gr. 6-10. The author, a McCaffrey fan, had access to the very popular sf author, her three adult children, and some of her colleagues, which lends credibility to this account and helps give readers a sense of McCaffrey the person as well as McCaffrey the writer. Trachtenberg begins with McCaffrey's 1968 Hugo Award, a first for a woman, then backtracks to reveal the author's childhood, work in music and theater, marriage and divorce, move to Ireland, and prolific writing career, which took off after many rejection notices. A selected list of McCaffrey's works, a list of further reading, and Internet addresses round out this crisp, well-written entry in the People to Know series. Black-and-white photos. Sally Estes
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About this edition

• Publisher: Enslow Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0766011518
• ISBN 13: 9780766011519
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 112