Todd McCaffrey

1 universe Last reviewed 2026-08-06

Todd McCaffrey is an American science fiction and fantasy author, born Todd Johnson on April 27, 1956, in Montclair, New Jersey; he is the son of author Anne McCaffrey and later adopted her surname for his publishing career, writing as Todd Johnson until the late 1990s. He studied engineering physics for one year at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania before earning a Mechanical Engineering degree from the College of Technology in Dublin and an additional degree from Trinity College Dublin. He served in the United States Army from 1978 to 1982, stationed in Stuttgart, Germany, and earned his pilot's license in 1988, making solo flights across North America between 1989 and 1990; he worked as a computer programmer beginning in 1986 before leaving that career around 1990 to write full-time. Todd McCaffrey is best known for co-authoring and later continuing his mother's Dragonriders of Pern series, contributing novels including Dragon's Kin (2003), Dragonsblood (2005), and Dragon's Time (2011), as well as Dragonholder (1999), a biography of his mother. He has served as Guest of Honor at Albacon 2008 alongside Anne McCaffrey, Literary Guest of Honor at ConDor and AggieCon in 2009, and keynote speaker at the Life, the Universe, & Everything symposium in 2018.

Universe(s)

Books

• Dragon's Kin (2003) · Dragonriders of Pern Core Canon
• Dragonsblood (2005) · Dragonriders of Pern Expanded Canon
• Dragon's Fire (2006) · Dragonriders of Pern Core Canon
• Dragon Harper (2007) · Dragonriders of Pern Core Canon
• Dragonheart (2008) · Dragonriders of Pern Expanded Canon
• Dragongirl (2010) · Dragonriders of Pern Expanded Canon
• Dragon's Time (2011) · Dragonriders of Pern Core Canon
• Sky Dragons (2012) · Dragonriders of Pern Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 20 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 20 (6 won, 8 finalist mention, 6 nomination)

← All authors