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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.
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.
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...
Nov 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 13, 2024 · Russ saw what was wrong with the world we know, how much needless pain it contains on account of gender roles—and she let herself stay angry about it, too.
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 26, 2023 · Joanna Russ, whose science fiction innovations are honored by a new collection in the Library of America series, saw literature as a quest to rescue her Ashkenazi Jewish mother.
