WRITER

Anne McCaffrey

1926 - 2011

Anne McCaffrey

Anne Inez McCaffrey (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011) was an American writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction (Best Novella, Weyr Search, 1968) and the first to win a Nebula Award (Best Novella, Dragonrider, 1969). Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list. In 2005 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its 22nd Grand Master, an annual award to living writers of fantasy and science fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anne McCaffrey is the 3,013th most popular writer (down from 2,859th in 2019), the 4,350th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,616th in 2019) and the 345th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Anne McCaffrey ranks 3,013 out of 7,302. Before her are José de Alencar, Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Diphilus, Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, Leonid Leonov, and Rachel Bluwstein. After her are John Aubrey, Cristina Peri Rossi, Ferenc Kazinczy, Juan Pablo Bonet, Titus Burckhardt, and Viktor Dyk.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

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José de Alencar
1829 - 1877
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 3,007
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia
1893 - 1975
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 3,008
Diphilus
350 BC - 400 BC
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 3,009
Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths
1759 - 1839
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 3,010
Leonid Leonov
1899 - 1994
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 3,011
Rachel Bluwstein
1890 - 1931
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 3,012
Anne McCaffrey
1926 - 2011
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 3,013
John Aubrey
1626 - 1697
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 3,014
Cristina Peri Rossi
1941 - Present
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 3,015
Ferenc Kazinczy
1759 - 1831
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 3,016
Juan Pablo Bonet
1579 - 1633
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 3,017
Titus Burckhardt
1908 - 1984
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 3,018
Viktor Dyk
1877 - 1931
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 3,019

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Anne McCaffrey ranks 203. Before her are Klaus Tennstedt, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Ricardo María Carles Gordó, Mahasweta Devi, Choi Eun-hee, and Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo. After her are Vitaly Vorotnikov, Moshe Sanbar, Bernard Agré, Edgar Hilsenrath, Hans-Jochen Vogel, and Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean. Among people deceased in 2011, Anne McCaffrey ranks 164. Before her are Claude Choules, Bora Kostić, Otakar Vávra, Kurt Sanderling, Diane Cilento, and Montserrat Figueras. After her are Wiel Coerver, Randy Savage, Võ Chí Công, Sándor Képíró, Susannah York, and Nirmala Srivastava.

Others Born in 1926

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Klaus Tennstedt
MUSICIAN
1926 - 1998
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 197
Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
BUSINESSPERSON
1926 - 1972
HPI: 60.53
Rank: 198
Ricardo María Carles Gordó
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1926 - 2013
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 199
Mahasweta Devi
WRITER
1926 - 2016
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 200
Choi Eun-hee
ACTOR
1926 - 2018
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 201
Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1926 - 1993
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 202
Anne McCaffrey
WRITER
1926 - 2011
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 203
Vitaly Vorotnikov
POLITICIAN
1926 - 2012
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 204
Moshe Sanbar
POLITICIAN
1926 - 2012
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 205
Bernard Agré
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1926 - 2014
HPI: 60.18
Rank: 206
Edgar Hilsenrath
WRITER
1926 - 2018
HPI: 60.18
Rank: 207
Hans-Jochen Vogel
POLITICIAN
1926 - 2020
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 208
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean
POLITICIAN
1926 - 1987
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 209