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Alice Mary Norton (1912-2005) was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She worked for much of her adult life as a librarian, but also once owned a bookstore. She became a full-time writer in 1958. Her fiction began to be published in 1934 with The Prince Commands, and her first published genre story was "The People of the Crater" in Fantasy Book (1947), using the byline Andrew North. Later, she legally changed her name to the one by which SF readers knew her best.

Probably the most popular series she wrote was the Witch World novels, not only her own but those by other writers as well. Her early genre career was mostly in science fiction, and after 1970 she began to publish more fantasy than SF, perhaps due to the popularity of the Witch World novels. She published over a hundred novels altogether, preferring that length to short fiction.

Several writers, including Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mercedes Lackey, Sasha Miller, Lyn McConchie, and Robert Adams either collaborated with Norton on novels set in worlds she created, or were authorized to write their own novels set in those worlds.

Norton died of congestive heart failure on March 17, 2005 at home in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; she was 92.

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