![]() ![]() Norton was the only woman among the original eight members. 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 won a number of other genre awards and regularly had works appear in the Locus annual “best of year” polls. ![]() 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. 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 series was published in hardcover editions. ![]() The first six novels were Ace Books paperback originals published from 1963 to 1968. 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. 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. Andre Alice Norton (born Alice Mary Norton, Febru– March 17, 2005) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy (with some works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction) under the pen names Andre Norton, Andrew North and Allen Weston. ![]()
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