Anne McCaffrey lives in a house of her own design, Dragonhold-Underhill, in County Wicklow, Ireland. A prolific bestselling author, she is best known for her handling of broad themes and the worlds of her imagination, particularly in her tales of the Talents and the novels about the Dragonriders of Pern. She graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College, majoring in Slavonic Languages and Literatures. Shelly Shapiro, Executive Editor About the Author:Īnne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Maybe that's because if you squint your eyes and look sideways, shrimp are kind of dragonlike, and I was eating them in the right company!

She made us dinner that night, too-the one and only time in my life that I've actually liked shrimp cocktail.

My husband and I arrived at the doorstep, and she immediately began bustling about, frying up some of the bacon we'd brought and sharing a lovely late breakfast with us before sending us off to the hotel for a nap. But whenever circumstances allow, I do try to bring her American bacon, something she can't get easily in Ireland, and something which she has taught all her friends there to love, as well! I remember the first time I went to visit her, when she was still living in her old, much smaller but very homey, house. Some she's bought, but many have been made for her by adoring fans and given to her as gifts.

There are dragons all over Anne McCaffrey's house.

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