Country Store Mystery: 1965 Letter from Andre Norton
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Andre Norton and the Case of the Country Store
Andre Norton was the primary pen name of Alice Mary Norton, winner of the Nebula and World Fantasy awards, and in 1934 she adopted it as her legal name. She was the first woman inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, the first woman to be named SFWA Grand Master, and the first woman to win the Gandalf Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement in fantasy writing. In 2005 the Andre Norton Award was created to honor exceptional work in science fiction and fantasy for young adult literature.
Among the Locus archives there are several photos of and letters from Norton to Charles Brown. In the letter presented here, she discusses an idea for story set in her Free Traders universe, exchanging books with the Browns, and a mysterious country store in a town near her home.
