![]() 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. ![]() ![]() She also used the names Andrew North and Allen Weston as pseudonyms.Īndre Norton published her first novel in 1934, and was the first woman to receive the Gandalf Grand Master Award from the World Science Fiction Society in 1977, and won the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) association in 1983. In 1934 she legally changed her name to Andre Alice. First contacts with the publishing world led her, as many other contemporary female writers targeting a male-dominated market, to choose a literary pseudonym. She started writing in her teens, inspired by a charismatic high school teacher. ![]() Alice Mary Norton always had an affinity to the humanities. ![]()
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