Description
This biography reveals a fascinating and complex figure, one who creates and re-creates her fiction by drawing on life experiences. At various stages, McCaffrey has been a beautiful young girl who refused to fit into traditional gender roles in high school, a restless young mother who wanted to write, an American expatriate who became an Irish citizen, an animal lover who dreamed of fantasy worlds with perfect relationships between humans and beasts, and a wife trapped in an unhappy marriage just as the women's movement took hold.
Author Robin Roberts conducted interviews with McCaffrey, her children, friends, and colleagues, and used archival correspondence and contemporary reviews and criticism. The biography examines how McCaffrey's early interests in theater, Slavonic languages and literature, and British history, mythology, and culture all shaped her science fiction. The book is a nuanced portrait of a writer whose appeal extends well beyond readers of her chosen genre.
About the Author
Robin Roberts is associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of English and women's and gender studies at Louisiana State University. She is the author of Sexual Generations: ""Star Trek: The Next Generation"" and Gender; Anne McCaffrey: A Critical Companion; A New Species: Gender and Science in Science Fiction; and Ladies First: Women in Music Videos (University Press of Mississippi).
Reviews
"On the eve, more or less, of my trip to Eurocon at Copenhagen, let me assure you that [A Life with Dragons] is excellent. She [Robin Roberts] manages to know more about why I write than I do, and does it in such a smooth manner that I was bloody well glad she wrote it." - extract from Anne McCaffrey's website"
Book Information
ISBN 9781578069989
Author Robin Roberts
Format Hardback
Page Count 277
Imprint University Press of Mississippi
Publisher University Press of Mississippi
