Born this day: 04/01/1926 (d. 11/21/2011)
Anne McCaffrey was the first woman to win both a Hugo and a Nebula Award for fiction. Best known for the Dragonriders of Pern, she created a world where bonded dragons and their riders defend a colony planet from deadly spore. Named SFWA Grand Master in 2005.

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