From the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) site:
Andre Norton, 93, the “Grand Dame of Science Fiction and Fantasy,” author, poet, editor, whose published works span seven decades, died of congestive heart failure in her Murfreesboro, Tennessee home, early Thursday morning, March 17th.
Andre Norton was born Alice Mary Norton on February 17, 1912, in Cleveland Ohio. She wrote more than 130 novels, nearly one hundred short stories, and edited numerous anthologies in the science-fiction, fantasy, mystery, and western genres. She the first woman to be a SFWA Grand Master and to be inducted in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. She received Skylark, Barlog, and World Fantasy awards, and was the first woman to win the Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy award.
Read the entire obituary here.
Also note that SFWA has created a new book award for young adult novels in Norton’s name. The annual Andre Norton Award will be announced along with the Nebulas, with the first award to be presented in 2006.
Star Man’s Son
My favorite Norton book was Star Man’s Son
Re:Star Man’s Son
For me its the Witch World novels.