Andre Norton

Andre Norton, born Alice Mary Norton in 1912, was an American fiction writer best known for science fiction and fantasy, a field where her work first appeared in the 1950s. She also wrote crime, romantic and historical fiction, mostly before 1960, and used the pen name Andrew North on several titles. Her books include the space adventure The X Factor and The Elvenbane, the first of the Halfblood Chronicles, on which Mercedes Lackey shares the byline. She died in 2005.