The fifth and last novel was dedicated “To my late collaborator, Andre Norton, whose vision inspired the NordornLand cycle.” The five novels of The Cycle of Oak, Yew, Ash, and Rowan, To the King a Daughter, Knight or Knave, A Crown Disowned, Dragon Blade, and The Knight of the Red Beard, were written with Sasha Miller. (Witch World became a shared universe.) There were dozens of books in all. From the 1980s some were written by Norton and a co-author, and others were anthologies of short fiction for which she was editor. From the 1970s most of the books in the series were first published in hardcover editions. The first six novels were Ace Books paperback originals published from 1963 to 1968. She was the first woman to be Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy, to be SFWA Grand Master, and to be inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.Īndre Norton 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. She wrote primarily under the pen name Andre Norton, but also under Andrew North and Allen Weston. Andre Alice Norton (1912 – 2005) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, who also wrote works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction.
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