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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
That's ironic because both Alice Mary Norton and Carolyn Cherry had to use masculine (Andre) or neuter (C.J.) pen names. Book buyers (or at least publishers) back then made buying decisions, apparently, based on what sex the author was. Have we gone back to those days?
A good book is a good book. Shouldn't we be beyond caring whether a man or a woman wrote it?
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Funny story, sort of. I read Andre Norton for years, as did my friends. We were all big Sci-fi/Fantasy readers, and always called "him" Andrea Norton, and just assumed that the writer was a woman. It never occurred to any of us that Andre was supposed to be a masculine name (though looking back, of course it was).