1942 - Today
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 476,585 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. C. J. Cherryh is the 3,777th most popular writer (up from 3,888th in 2019), the 5,053rd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,279th in 2019) and the 423rd most popular American Writer.
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Among writers, C. J. Cherryh ranks 3,777 out of 5,755. Before her are Dmitry Furmanov, Peter Rosegger, Robert Pinget, Gregory David Roberts, Veniamin Kaverin, and Anne-Cath. Vestly. After her are Leslie Stephen, Renia Spiegel, V. C. Andrews, Paul Fort, Nodira, and Yu Hua.
1891 - 1926
HPI: 49.35
Rank: 3,771
1843 - 1918
HPI: 49.35
Rank: 3,772
1919 - 1997
HPI: 49.34
Rank: 3,773
1952 - Present
HPI: 49.33
Rank: 3,774
1902 - 1989
HPI: 49.33
Rank: 3,775
1920 - 2008
HPI: 49.33
Rank: 3,776
1942 - Present
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 3,777
1832 - 1904
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 3,778
1924 - 1942
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 3,779
1923 - 1986
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 3,780
1872 - 1960
HPI: 49.31
Rank: 3,781
1792 - 1842
HPI: 49.31
Rank: 3,782
1960 - Present
HPI: 49.30
Rank: 3,783
Among people born in 1942, C. J. Cherryh ranks 346. Before her are Valentin Lebedev, Eduard Markarov, Gustavo Peña, Jean Shrimpton, Ricardo Blázquez, and Marsha Mason. After her are Pål Tyldum, Bo Johansson, John Shrapnel, Pamela Tiffin, Želimir Žilnik, and Richard O'Brien.
1942 - Present
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 340
1942 - Present
HPI: 49.43
Rank: 341
1942 - 2021
HPI: 49.43
Rank: 342
1942 - Present
HPI: 49.37
Rank: 343
1942 - Present
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 344
1942 - Present
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 345
1942 - Present
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 346
1942 - Present
HPI: 49.31
Rank: 347
1942 - Present
HPI: 49.31
Rank: 348
1942 - 2020
HPI: 49.26
Rank: 349
1942 - 2020
HPI: 49.24
Rank: 350
1942 - Present
HPI: 49.23
Rank: 351
1942 - Present
HPI: 49.22
Rank: 352
Among people born in United States, C. J. Cherryh ranks 5,053 out of 18,182. Before her are Margaret Taylor (1788), Mark St. John (1956), Robert Berdella (1949), Michael Harner (1929), Marsha Mason (1942), and Richard Petty (1937). After her are V. C. Andrews (1923), Gina Carano (1982), Fletcher Henderson (1897), Zooey Deschanel (1980), Jon Hamm (1971), and Julia Grant (1826).
1788 - 1852
HPI: 49.34
Rank: 5,047
1956 - 2007
HPI: 49.33
Rank: 5,048
1949 - 1992
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 5,049
1929 - 2018
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 5,050
1942 - Present
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 5,051
1937 - Present
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 5,052
1942 - Present
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 5,053
1923 - 1986
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 5,054
1982 - Present
HPI: 49.31
Rank: 5,055
1897 - 1952
HPI: 49.31
Rank: 5,056
1980 - Present
HPI: 49.31
Rank: 5,057
1971 - Present
HPI: 49.31
Rank: 5,058
1826 - 1902
HPI: 49.30
Rank: 5,059
Among writers born in United States, C. J. Cherryh ranks 423. Before her are Sue Grafton (1940), Gloria Vanderbilt (1924), David Baldacci (1960), Sandra Brown (1948), David Brin (1950), and Ron Kovic (1946). After her are V. C. Andrews (1923), James Thurber (1894), Saul Alinsky (1909), Maxwell Anderson (1888), Bret Harte (1836), and Kim Stanley Robinson (1952).
1940 - 2017
HPI: 49.47
Rank: 417
1924 - 2019
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 418
1960 - Present
HPI: 49.44
Rank: 419
1948 - Present
HPI: 49.42
Rank: 420
1950 - Present
HPI: 49.40
Rank: 421
1946 - Present
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 422
1942 - Present
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 423
1923 - 1986
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 424
1894 - 1961
HPI: 49.28
Rank: 425
1909 - 1972
HPI: 49.28
Rank: 426
1888 - 1959
HPI: 49.27
Rank: 427
1836 - 1902
HPI: 49.25
Rank: 428
1952 - Present
HPI: 49.25
Rank: 429