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C. J. Cherryh

1942 - Today

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Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction. She has written more than 80 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award–winning novels Downbelow Station (1981) and Cyteen (1988), both set in her Alliance–Union universe, and her Foreigner series. She is known for worldbuilding, depicting fictional realms with great realism supported by vast research in history, language, psychology, and archeology. Cherryh (pronounced "Cherry") appended a silent "h" to her real name because her first editor, Donald A. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of C. J. Cherryh has received more than 520,703 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. C. J. Cherryh is the 4,518th most popular writer (down from 3,764th in 2019), the 6,070th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,041st in 2019) and the 484th most popular American Writer.

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  • 520k

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  • 55.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, C. J. Cherryh ranks 4,518 out of 7,302. Before her are Oskar Pastior, Terenci Moix, Piero Angela, Janko Kráľ, Claude Mauriac, and Murad Wilfried Hofmann. After her are Alfredo Panzini, Martin Suter, Dmitry Gulia, Amy Lowell, Paul Du Chaillu, and E. E. Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, C. J. Cherryh ranks 421. Before her are Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, Lupe Ontiveros, Tomasz Stańko, Roger McGuinn, Terenci Moix, and Sergey Shakurov. After her are Richard O'Brien, Chris Hani, Rildo da Costa Menezes, Roshan Seth, Gustavo Peña, and Yevhen Stankovych.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, C. J. Cherryh ranks 6,070 out of 20,380. Before her are Judge Reinhold (1957), Allen Garfield (1939), Tom Verlaine (1949), Mike Lee (1971), S. Robson Walton (1944), and Wilson Greatbatch (1919). After her are Mickey Kuhn (1932), Pruitt Taylor Vince (1960), Loretta Swit (1937), Lee Aaker (1943), Tommy Gunn (1967), and Amy Lowell (1874).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, C. J. Cherryh ranks 484. Before her are Brian Herbert (1947), Helen Thomas (1920), Julia Quinn (1970), Tracy Chevalier (1962), Reginald Rose (1920), and Delia Owens (1949). After her are Amy Lowell (1874), E. E. Smith (1890), Timothy Zahn (1951), Norman Spinrad (1940), Russell Kirk (1918), and Sandra Brown (1948).

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