More Words, Deeper Hole

*nods* same here. I learned she was female when my parents moved and I started going to a new library, looked her up in the card catalog (being my favorite author and eager to know if they had her books in the YA or SF sections), and was surprised to see a note about what her real name was. I also have an old Ace paperback of Plague Ship where the cover says Andre Norton, writing as Andrew North, I got that a couple years after the afore-mentioned trip to the library and had begun to realize that there might be a reason some female SF authors used male names.