Anne McCaffrey
Anne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1926. She majored in Slavonic Languages and Literature at Radcliffe College. She married in 1950 and has three children, Alec, Anthony and Georgeanne. Her first novel was published in 1967 by Ballantine Books. She currently lives in a house of her own design in Wicklow County, Ireland. She has called it Dragonhold-Underhill (because she had to dig out a hill on her farm to build it). She is best known for her two series, The Ship Who Sang and the Dragonriders Of Pern.
