Joanna Russ
American author (1937-2011)
Biography
Joanna Russ was born in New York City in 1937 and died in 2011. She worked as a writer, academic, and feminist activist across multiple genres, producing science fiction, fantasy, literary criticism, and a children's book. Her works included the novel The Female Man, which blended utopian fiction with satire, the story "When It Changed," the essay collection How to Suppress Women's Writing, the novel On Strike Against God, and the children's book Kittatinny.
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Joanna Russ is recorded as a writer of feminist science fiction, a women's rights activist, a science fiction writer, a essayist, a novelist, a children's writer, a journalist, a university teacher and a writer, born in New York (1937–2011).
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