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This small link between McCaffrey's undergraduate years and her later life is rare. Her degree did not have a profound influence, she says, except initially when "a Radcliffe honors degree meant the difference between the [employer's] picking me over someone else...
Radcliffe was not a choice for McCaffrey as it is for some people...
Just as in Mark of Merlin, McCaffrey often finds inspiration for her stories in real life. Although she did not realize it at the time, The Ship Who Sang, McCaffrey's acknowledged favorite of all her books, was written as therapy for her father's death...
...Bradbury's hero had been Ernest Hemingway, and Bradbury could not understand or cope with Hemingway's suicide," McCaffrey says. "Bradbury wrote a marvelous story, "The Kilimanjaro Effect,' in which Hemingway is killed by a tiger as a way to deal with his death in real life. I realized that in writing that story, I had done much the same for my father...
...Ship Who Sang is her favorite because it is a very emotional story that impacts people dramatically when they read it for the first time, McCaffrey says. "It's not the best-written story, but it was certainly effective...