Andre Norton died yesterday
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/03/17/obit.norton.ap/index.html

I’ve read many of her books, and was reading one of them just yesterday as well. I can remember binging on her books at the old library which is now a family video store. She’s always been a creative inspiration to me.

Her last complete novel, “Three Hands of Scorpio,” is set to be released in April. Norton’s publisher, Tor Books, rushed to have one copy printed so that the author, who had been sick for almost a year, could see it.

“She was able to hold it on Friday,” Jewell said. “She took it and said, ‘What a pretty cobalt blue for the cover.’ “

Norton requested before her death that she not have a funeral service, but instead asked to be cremated along with a copy of her first and last novels.

She was 93.