Her first novel, Restoree, was written as a protest against the absurd and unrealistic portrayals of women in s-f novels in the 50s and early 60s. By the time the three children of her marriage were comfortably in school most of the day, she had already achieved enough success with short stories to devote full time to writing. 1952, Todd, b.1956, and Georgeanne, b.1959.Īnne McCaffrey’s first story was published by Sam Moskowitz in Science Fiction + Magazine and her first novel was published by Ballantine Books in 1967. She married in 1950 and had three children: Alec Anthony, b. Her working career included Liberty Music Shops and Helena Rubinstein (1947-1952). She had two brothers: Hugh McCaffrey (deceased 1988), Major US Army, and Kevin Richard McCaffrey, still living.Īnne was educated at Stuart Hall in Staunton Virginia, Montclair High School in Montclair, New Jersey, and graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College, majoring in Slavonic Languages and Literatures. Her parents were George Herbert McCaffrey, BA, MA PhD (Harvard), Colonel USA Army (retired), and Anne Dorothy McElroy McCaffrey, estate agent. Dimensions: 6.54in - 4.48in - 0.94in - 0.Anne McCaffrey was born on April 1st, 1926, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Assigned to serve the farthest human colonized world from Earth, Damia leads a lonely existence until she telepathically connects with an alien presence in another galaxy-a potential threat not only to Damia, but to the love Afra wants to share with her. When she comes of age, Damia learns that a Prime of her capabilities and temperament has no time for love. As willful as her mother ever was, Damia defies her family's attempts to tame and train her-only to bond with Afra Lyon, a Talent who serves The Rowan, and who becomes the object of her affection.
Her own telepathic and telekinetic abilities manifested at an early age, unimaginable powers even greater than her parents', challenging to wield much less control. Damia is the daughter of Prime Talents The Rowan and Jeff Raven.
New York Times bestselling fantasy author Anne McCaffrey "interweaves an engrossing romance with a coming-of-age story"( Publishers Weekly) in this novel in the Tower and Hive series.
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