A review by mal_eficent
Dragonholder: The Life and Dreams (So Far) of Anne McCaffrey by Todd McCaffrey, Anne McCaffrey

informative lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

Anne McCaffrey has been a large part of my life for a very long time but, being a child for most of my obsession with Pern and in the UK, I've never known really known a lot about her life or how authors at the time really got their start. This filled in this gaps for me quite a lot, and it clarified the way her life influenced her work. It was really interesting to read about her impact in the Convention space, organisations that required membership, and just the way magazines used to be much more important to the sci-fi/fantasy genre than they are now. I'm glad Todd included a lot of small details about publication costs and random tangents that might have been missed in a more conventional biography. 

Of course, it is a biography written by a son about his mother. There's a lot of random family moments and mythology that makes its way in here that made me roll my eyes a little bit (I don't think I'd have gotten on with McCaffrey, for all I love her writing) but it cut to the heart of who McCaffrey was at the time in a heartwarming way. 

I'd recommend this to any McCaffrey fans out there!