"To be born, as I was, on April First imposes a certain responsibility on you to Be Someone. At nine I was convinced that being a writer was the easiest way to accomplish this goal. My first novel was entitled 'Flame, Chief of Herd and Track.' The second...

Anne McCaffrey is a writer of many firsts: the first woman to win science fiction's coveted Hugo and Nebula Awards; the first sci-fi writer to break into the New York Times bestseller lists; and the first sci fi writer to be awarded the prestigious Marga...

Anne McCaffrey is one of the most prominent writers of science fiction today. Her special contribution has been to make emotion and love respectable subjects in science fiction. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Anne Inez McCaffrey was awarded a B.A. in...

"May I," writes a reader who lives near the zoo, "express my extreme disappointment over your failure to deal with the Carl Rowan shooting case as it applies to the question of media access. "Certainly it's an important journalistic matter when a celebrity...

IT'S OBVIOUS 1) that columnist Carl Rowan should not have had an unregistered gun in the house and 2) that he should not have used it in his encounter with the intruder on his property in the middle of the night. We say this...

A display of the Ten Commandments at an eastern Kentucky courthouse does not violate the Constitution, but a lawsuit challenging a similar display in another county can proceed, a federal judge has ruled.The Ten Commandments display at the Rowan County Fiscal Court, part of an...