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Andre Alice Norton (February 17, 1912 - March 17, 2005) was an American science fiction and fantasy author (with some works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction). Born Alice Mary Norton in Cleveland, Ohio. She published her first novel in 1934, was the first woman to receive the Gandalf Grand Master Award from the World Science Fiction Society in 1977, and she won the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the SFWA in 1983. She wrote under the noms de plume Andre Norton, Andrew North and Allen Weston. Alan E. Nourse, assumed by some to be one of her noms de plume, was in fact another author of science fiction
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