![]() ![]() ![]() The markets for children and young adults provided crucial opportunities, as when editor Roger Elwood solicited contributions of short genre fiction to anthologies. The White Dragon would complete her "original trilogy" with Ballantine Books in 1978 but for several years that work stalled. McCaffrey divorced her husband in August 1970 and emigrated to the vicinity of Dublin, Ireland in September with her second Dragonriders of Pern book nearly finished and a contract for the third. Regarding that experience, including some emotional trauma, her fictional character Killashandra Ree is partly autobiographical. DuPont transferred her husband temporarily to Düsseldorf, Germany in 1962/63, where Anne resumed vocal training but suffered a crisis when she was informed that a flaw in her voice would limit her in that avocation. ![]() Later she studied voice for nine years, performed in the first music circus in 1949, once directed a play, and worked for a record label, Liberty Music Shop. While a schoolgirl, Anne McCaffrey enjoyed one year of piano lessons purchased by her Aunt. ![]()
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