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Interview #976: Talking With Tom: A Conversation Between Tom Doherty and Harriet McDougal, Entry #3
Tom Doherty
The very first book we published at Tor was actually Forerunner by Andre Norton .
Harriet McDougal
You went to Florida and said: “Please, I’ve never asked you for a favor, but I want one now.”
Tom Doherty
It was neat, because Harriet was quite into woman’s rights. She got a real kick out of the fact that, in the science fiction field that was so heavily male in those days, the first Tor book was by a woman.
Irene Gallo
I never thought of that. That’s great.
Harriet McDougal
Even though she was deep in purdah writing as Andre. But she had first published at the age of, what was it, seventeen? Very early.
Tom Doherty
I looked it up later. Her first book was published in 1934, the year before I was born. She was great. She was a lovely person and a lovely storyteller. Of course, by the time of Forerunner everybody knew she was a woman, but I guess back in 1934 when she was starting to get published, they just didn’t think women wrote science fiction.
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