Anne McCaffrey is the author of these books (seperated by series):

Dragonriders of Pern

  • Dragonflight
  • Dragonquest
  • The White Dragon
  • Dragonsong
  • Dragonsinger
  • Dragondrums
  • Moreta, Dragonlady of Pern
  • Nerilka's Story
  • Dragonsdawn
  • Renegades of Pern
  • All the Weyrs of Pern
  • Chronicles of Pern
  • The Dolphins of Pern
  • Dragonriders of Pern
  • Red Star Rising ('96 UK)
  • Dragonseye
  • The Skies of Pern

Crystal Singer

  • Crystal Singer
  • Killashandra
  • Crystal Line

Doona

  • Decision at Doona
  • Crisis on Doona (with Jody-Lynn Nye)
  • Treaty Planet (with Jody-Lynn Nye)

Talent Series

Catteni / Freedom

Dinosaur Planet / Planet Pirates

  • Dinosaur Planet
  • Dinosaur Planet Survivors
  • The Death of Sleep
  • Sassinak (with E. Moon)
  • Generations
  • Warriors (with E. Moon)

Brain & Brawn Ships

  • Ship Who Sang
  • Partnered Ship (with Margaret Ball)
  • Ship Who Searched (with Mercedes Lackey)
  • City Who Fought (with S.M. Stirling)
  • Ship Who Won (with Jody-Lynn Nye)
  • Ship Who Avenged (with S.M. Stirling)

Acorna

Petaybee

  • Powers That Be
  • Power Lines
  • Power Play

Anthologies

  • Get Off the Unicorn
  • Alchemy & Academe
  • Girl Who Heard Dragons

Romances

  • The Mark of Merlin
  • The Ring of Fear
  • Kilternan Legacy
  • Stitch in Snow
  • The Lady (aka The Carradyne Touch)
  • The Year of the Lucy

Other

  • Restoree
  • Alchemy & Academe (Anthology)
  • Cooking Out of This World (Cookbook)
  • Black Horses for the King (Harcourt Brace '96)

Anne McCaffrey was born on April 1, 1926 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She attended Radcliffe College, where she studied Slavonic Languages and Literatures and graduated cum laude.

After her graduation, McCaffrey worked as an actress, and became interested in directing and opera. Upon her marriage in 1950, Anne McCaffrey stopped working in theater and began writing short stories, the first of which was published in 1953.

Oddly enough, the name of Anne McCaffrey's husband is unavailable in any sources I could find, and all three of her children, Alec, Todd, and Georgeanne, use her last name.

McCaffrey's first book, Restoree was published in 1967 and was intended as protest against the absurd portrayal of women in early science fiction and fantasy. In 1968, her first Pern book, Dragonflight was published and became an immediate success.

In 1970, after her divorce, Anne McCaffrey and her children moved to Ireland, where she resides to this day. Her home is named Dragonhold Underhill, and she raises and breeds horses.

The bibliographies listed above seem complete, so I won't bother to list them again.

One of the most fascinating aspects of Anne McCaffrey's work, in my opinion, is that she is a woman author whose novels are popular among both men and women. Sadly, I've seen too many wonderful science ficion and fantasy writers marginalized as writing "only for women" because they themselves are women (Melanie Rawn, Marion Zimmer Bradley), whereas men (Robert Jordan, Orson Scott Card) are viewed as capable of writing for a broad audience. Anne McCaffrey has been successful in crossing this line, and I would recommend her books, especially the Dragonriders of Pern to anyone.

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