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Joanna Russ (February 22, 1937 – April 29, 2011) was an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children's book, Kittatinny.
Jan 30, 2020 · B. D. McClay writes about the life and work of the feminist science-fiction writer Joanna Russ, the author of “The Female Man” and a rival of Ursula K. Le Guin’s.
Nov 3, 2023 · By Jon Michaud. November 3, 2023. When she was in high school in the early 1950’s, Joanna Russ (1930–2011) read Mark Twain’s short story “A Medieval Romance,” about a duke without a male heir who brings his daughter up to fill the role, hiding her gender from all.
May 7, 2011 · Joanna Russ, a writer who four decades ago helped deliver science fiction into the hands of the most alien creatures the genre had yet seen — women — died on April 29 in Tucson. She was 74.
Apr 24, 2019 · A comprehensive overview of the life and work of Joanna Russ, a pioneer of women's science fiction and a critic of the genre. Find introductions, reviews, essays, and awards of her novels, short stories, and nonfiction.
Oct 8, 2023 · Now a new collection of her most significant works, JOANNA RUSS: Novels & Stories (Library of America, 711 pp., $37.50), offers a valuable introduction to a pioneer who defied categories.
Apr 29, 2011 · Joanna Russ (February 22, 1937 – April 29, 2011) was an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children's book, Kittatinny.
