Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

Andre Alice Norton née Alice Mary Norton (February 17 1912 – March 17 2005) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy (with some works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction) under the noms de plume Andre Norton Andrew North and Allen Weston. She and Jean Rabe were collaborating on the sequel to her 1979 Greyhawk novel Quag Keep when Andre Norton died. Some background elements such as the use of "Credits" as a unit of currency and of the lethal "Blasters" and the non-lethal "Stunners" as the main hand-weapons are common to many of Norton's science fiction books even when they are not set in precisely the same future.

Andre Alice Norton née Alice Mary Norton (February 17 1912 – March 17 2005) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy (with some works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction) under the noms de plume Andre Norton Andrew North and Allen Weston. She was the first woman to be Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy first to be SFWA Grand Master and first inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.