Anne McCaffrey is an Irish-American science fiction author, she is best known for her Dragon riders of Pern series. Her novel, The White Dragon, was one of the first science fiction books to become a New York Times Best Seller. Before her fame, she attended boarding school in Virginia and later graduated from Radcliffe College. She immigrated to Ireland in 1970 because, at the time, the country exempted artists and writers from paying income tax. She started out with her family, her and her brothers, Hugh, and Kevin, were born in Massachusetts to a family of mixed Irish and English ancestry. She married Horace Wright Johnson in 1950. Before divorcing, the couple had three children: Alec, Todd, and
