I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

Regarding her 1969 Decision at Doona (which Anne McCaffrey dedicated "To Todd Johnson—of course!") her son recalled that he was directed to lower his voice in his fourth-grade school play when his mother was in the auditorium. They moved to Sea Cliff Long Island in 1965 and McCaffrey became a full-time writer. It was considered impossible for a person to adjust to being a Anne McCaffreyll after the age of two or three.

Anne Inez McCaffrey (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011) was an American-born Irish writer best known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. Her novel The White Dragon became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list. She was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on 17 June 2006.