Anne McCaffrey net worth
Anne McCaffrey Net Worth: Anne McCaffrey is an American author who has a net worth of $20 million. Born Anne Inez McCaffrey (April 1, 1926 – November 21, 2011) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, she was a popular science fiction author, most Much appreciated is her Dragon Knight sci-fi series.
McCaffrey, from Ireland, graduated summa cum laude from Radcliffe College, majoring in Slavic Languages and Literature. She wrote her first novel in Latin class, a work that won her the love of her teachers and her father. She quickly moved from creating characters on paper to playing on stage, appearing in Lambertsville, New Jersey’s first successful summer musical circus.
Next, Mccaffrey studied vocal music for nine years, during which time she developed a keen interest in stage direction for opera and operetta, leading to the US premiere of directing Carl Orff’s Ludus De Nato Infante Mirificus ended her experience. She also added work to Liberty Music Shops and Helena Rubinstein (1947-1952) resumes before becoming a writer.
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Meanwhile, she married Alec Anthony in 1950, and the marriage produced three children.
Anne McCaffrey’s first novel, Restoree (1967), was a protest against the absurd and unrealistic depictions of women in science fiction in the 1950s and early 1960s. However, it was her first Pern story, Weyr Search (again in 1967), that earned her fame and critical recognition. The story won her the 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novella because it was voted on by participants at the annual World Science Fiction Convention. The second story, Dragon Knight (1968), brought her the 1969 Nebula Award for Best Novella, voted annually by American science fiction writers.
As such, she is the first woman to win the Hugo Award for Fiction and the first woman to win the Nebula Award.
In 2005, Anne McCaffrey was named the 22nd Master of Science by American Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame a year later. On November 21, 2011, the world lost this great novelist.
