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Andre Alice Norton (born ''Alice Mary Norton'', February 17, 1912 – March 17, 2005) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy with some works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction. She wrote primarily under the pen name Andre Norton, but also under Andrew North and Allen Weston. She was the first woman to be Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy, first to be SFWA Grand Master, and first inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.〔〔〔 ==Biography== Alice Mary Norton was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Her parents were Adalbert Freely Norton, who owned a rug company, and Bertha Stemm Norton. She began writing at Collinwood High School in Cleveland, under the tutelage of Miss Sylvia Cochrane. She was the editor of a literary page in the school's paper called ''The Collinwood Spotlight'' for which she wrote short stories. During this time, she wrote her first book, ''Ralestone Luck'', which was eventually published as her second novel in 1938. After graduating from high school in 1930, Norton planned to become a teacher and began studying at Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University. However, in 1932 she had to leave because of the Depression and began working for the Cleveland Library System,〔 where she remained for 18 years, latterly in the children's section of the Nottingham Branch Library in Cleveland. In 1934, she legally changed her name to ''Andre Alice Norton'', a pen name she had adopted to increase her marketability since boys were the main audience for fantasy.〔 Her first book was published by D. Appleton–Century Company that year, with illustrations by Kate Seredy, titled ''The Prince Commands, being sundry adventures of Michael Karl, sometime crown prince & pretender to the throne of Morvania'' (cataloged by the U.S. Library of Congress as by "André Norton").〔〔 During 1940–1941 she worked as a special librarian in the cataloging department of the Library of Congress. She was involved in a project related to alien citizenship which was abruptly terminated upon the American entry into World War II. In 1941 she bought a bookstore called ''Mystery House'' in Mount Rainier, Maryland, the eastern neighbor of D.C. The business failed, and she returned to the Cleveland Public Library until 1950 when she retired due to ill health. She began working as a reader for publisher-editor Martin Greenberg at Gnome Press, a small press in New York City that focused on science fiction. She remained until 1958, when she became a full-time professional writer—with 21 novels published.〔 ''Kirkus'' had reviewed 16 of them and awarded four starred reviews.〔 Norton's first published science fiction was a short novella, "The People of the Crater", which appeared under the name "Andrew North" as pages 4–18 of the inaugural 1947 number of ''Fantasy Book'', a magazine from Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.〔 Her first fantasy novel, ''Huon of the Horn'', published by Harcourt Brace under her own name in 1951, adapted the 13th-century story of Huon, Duke of Bordeaux.〔 Her first science fiction novel, ''Star Man's Son, 2250 A.D.'', appeared from Harcourt in 1952.〔 She became a prolific novelist in the 1950s, with many of her books published for the juvenile market, at least in their original hardcover editions. She wrote more than a dozen speculative fiction series, but her longest, and longest-running project was "Witch World", which began with the novel ''Witch World'' in 1963. The first six novels were Ace Books paperback originals published from 1963 to 1968.〔 From the 1970s most of the series was published in hardcover editions.〔 From the 1980s some were written by Norton and a co-author, and others were anthologies of short fiction for which she was editor. (Witch World became a shared universe). There were dozens of books in all.〔 Norton was twice nominated for the Hugo Award, in 1964 for the novel ''Witch World'' and in 1967 for the novelette "Wizard's World". She was nominated three times for the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement, winning the award in 1998. Norton won a number of other genre awards and regularly had works appear in the ''Locus'' annual "best of year" polls.〔 She was a founding member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), a loose-knit group of Heroic Fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, led by Lin Carter, with entry by fantasy credentials alone. Norton was the only woman among the original eight members. Some works by SAGA members were published in Lin Carter's ''Flashing Swords!'' anthologies. As Norton's health became uncertain, she moved to Winter Park, Florida in November 1966, where she remained until 1997. In 1976, Gary Gygax invited Norton to play ''Dungeons & Dragons'' in his Greyhawk world. Norton subsequently wrote ''Quag Keep'', which involved a group of characters who travel from the real world to Greyhawk. It was the first novel to be set, at least partially, in the Greyhawk setting and, according to ''Alternative Worlds'', the first to be based on ''D&D''. ''Quag Keep'' was excerpted in Issue 12 of ''The Dragon'' (February 1978) just prior to the book's release. She and Jean Rabe were collaborating on the sequel to her 1979 Greyhawk novel ''Quag Keep'' when she died. ''Return to Quag Keep'' was completed by Rabe and published by Tor Books in January 2006.〔 She moved to Murfreesboro, Tennessee in 1997 and from February 21, 2005, she was under hospice care. She died at home on March 17, 2005, of congestive heart failure. Her final complete novel, ''Three Hands for Scorpio'', was published on April 1, 2005. Besides ''Return to Quag Keep'', Tor has published two more novels with Norton and Rabe credited as co-authors, ''Dragon Mage'' (Nov 2006) and ''Taste of Magic'' (Jan 2008).〔 The five novels of The Cycle of Oak, Yew, Ash, and Rowan, (1) ''To the King a Daughter'', (2) ''Knight or Knave'', (3) ''A Crown Disowned'', (4) ''Dragon Blade'', and (5) ''The Knight of the Red Beard'', were written with Sasha Miller.〔Andre Norton and Sasha Miller (2008), ''The Knight of the Red Beard'', 2009 reprint, New York: Tor, p. ().〕 The fifth and last novel was dedicated "To my late collaborator, Andre Norton, whose vision inspired the NordornLand cycle."〔Andre Norton and Sasha Miller (2008), ''The Knight of the Red Beard'', 2009 reprint, New York: Tor, p. 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