Norton began to publish fiction with The Prince Commands: Being Sundry Adventures of Michael Karl, Sometime Crown Prince & Pretender to the Throne of Morvania ( 1934), a Ruritanian romance in which a Werewolf features her later World War Two espionage trilogy – The Sword Is Drawn ( 1944), Sword in Sheath ( 1949 vt Island of the Lost 1953) and At Swords' Point ( 1954) – was of limited genre interest. In the 1970s and 1980s, however, as her work changed in emphasis from sf to fantasy and as her popularity continued to grow, new novels and reprints alike were released primarily into the general market. A librarian for two decades before turning to full-time writing, she was one of the few sf figures of any stature to enter the field via Children's SF, and, though much of her work is fully as adult in theme and difficulty as most general sf, she was for many years primarily marketed as a writer for children and the Young Adult market. Initially the working name of US author Alice Mary Norton (1912-2005), but for most of her career her legal name.
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