However, before the loss of this advanced technology, the original colonists produced genetically engineered dragons. The advanced technology of their ancestors has been lost, so the inhabitants of Pern have reverted to a society similar to Earth's medieval times. These are set on a fictional planet known as Pern, settled by colonists from Earth. McCaffrey's most famous works are the Dragonriders of Pern series. Original artwork copyright by Linda Eicher. Portrait of Anne McCaffrey by Linda Eicher.

McCaffrey lived in a house of her own design in County Wicklow, Ireland and called her home Dragonhold-Underhill. She was divorced in 1970, after which she emigrated to Ireland with her two younger children. Wright Johnson in 1950 and has three children: Alec Anthony, born in 1952, Todd McCaffrey, born in 1956, and Georgeanne (Gigi), born in 1959. She studied voice for nine years, performed in the first music circus in 1949, once directed a play, and worked for a record label, Liberty Music Shop. She then went to Montclair High School, Montclair, New Jersey, and graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College majoring in Slavonic Languages and Literature in 1947. Īnne was educated at Stuart Hall, an all-girl boarding school in Staunton, Virginia. She had two brothers: Hugh (deceased 1988), a Major in the US Army, and Kevin Richard McCaffrey, still living.Īnne passed away at the age of 85 on 21 November 2011 at her home in Ireland after suffering a stroke.

3.1 Federated Sentient Planets universeĪnne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts to George Herbert McCaffrey and Anne Dorothy McElroy.

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