You're thinking of his novel "Ringworld". The puppeteers where the ones who meddled with human evolution in order to crete lucky humans and the "lucky" human they eventually picked (with others for crewing a puppeteer exploration ship) was Teela Brown:
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Date: 2010-03-04 05:14 am (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teela_Brown