WRITER

Joanna Russ

1937 - 2011

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joanna Russ has received more than 243,381 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Joanna Russ is the 5,015th most popular writer (down from 4,702nd in 2019), the 7,048th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,801st in 2019) and the 559th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 240k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Nebula Award Stories
Science Fiction
On Strike Against God
Feminist literature, Fiction, Lesbians
Picnic on Paradise
American Science fiction, Science fiction, Science fiction, American
The Female Man
Feminist fiction, Fiction in English, American Science fiction
The Two of Them
American Science fiction, Lesbian science fiction, Imaginary places
The Dark Descent
pt. 1. The color of evil. The reach / Stephen King -- Evening primrose / John Collier -- The ash-tree / M.R. James -- The new mother / Lucy Clifford -- There's a long, long trail a-winding / Russell Kirk -- The call of Cthulhu / H.P. Lovecraft -- The summer people / Shirley Jackson -- The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Mr. Justice Harbottle -- J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The crowd / Ray Bradbury -- The autopsy / Michael Shea -- John Charrington's wedding / E. Nesbit -- Sticks / Karl Edward Wagner -- Larger than oneself / Robert Aickman -- Belsen Express / Fritz Leiber -- Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch -- If Damon comes / Charles L. Grant -- Vandy, Vandy / Manly Wade Wellman -- pt. 2. The Medusa in the shield. The swords / Robert Aickman -- The roaches / Thomas M. Disch -- Bright segment / Theodore Sturgeon -- Dread / Clive Barker -- The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The monkey / Stephen King -- Within the walls of Tyre / Michael Bishop -- The rats in the walls / H.P. Lovecraft -- Schalken the painter / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- How love came to Professor Guildea / Robert Hichens -- Born of man and woman / Richard Matheson -- My dear Emily / Joanna Russ -- You can go now / Dennis Etchison -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Three days / Tanith Lee -- Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- Mackintosh Willy / Ramsey Campbell -- The jolly corner / Henry James -- pt. 3. A fabulous formless darkness. Smoke ghost / Fritz Leiber -- Seven American nights / Gene Wolfe -- The signal-man / Charles Dickens -- [Crouch End](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650699W/Crouch_End) / Stephen King -- Night-side / Joyce Carol Oates -- Seaton's aunt / Walter de la Mare -- Clara Militch / Ivan Turgenev -- The repairer of reputations / Robert W. Chambers -- The beckoning fair one / Oliver Onions -- What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien -- The beautiful stranger / Shirley Jackson -- [The damned thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W/The_Damned_Thing) / Ambrose Bierce -- Afterward / Edith Wharton -- The willows / Algernon Blackwood -- The Asian shore / Thomas M. Disch -- The hospice / Robert Aickman -- A little something for us tempunauts / Philip K. Dick.

Page views of Joanna Russes by language

Over the past year Joanna Russ has had the most page views in the with 33,667 views, followed by French (3,101), and Spanish (2,470). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Macedonian (83.40%), French (36.61%), and Catalan (35.34%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joanna Russ ranks 5,015 out of 7,302Before her are Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Sidney Howard, Þorbjörn Hornklofi, Margery Allingham, Álvaro Cunqueiro, and Anna Maria Ortese. After her are Paul Theroux, Wolf Erlbruch, Pratibha Ray, Michael Hirst, Nicolaas Beets, and Rosa Liksom.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Joanna Russ ranks 377Before her are Héctor Facundo, Attilio Nicora, Nancy Wilson, Ferenc Kósa, Jacques Barrot, and Jan Kaplický. After her are René Kollo, Frans De Mulder, Barbara Windsor, David Acevedo, Richard H. Truly, and Lucinda Williams. Among people deceased in 2011, Joanna Russ ranks 317Before her are Henry Cooper, Juan Tuñas, Bob Benny, Gunnar Fischer, Jack LaLanne, and Jan van Beveren. After her are Iván Menczel, Marie Ljalková, Frances Bay, Hubert Sumlin, Lewis Binford, and Annie Easley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joanna Russ ranks 7,048 out of 20,380Before her are Joshua Chamberlain (1828), Ron Ely (1938), Tom Heinsohn (1934), Joe Ranft (1960), Big E (1986), and Rush Limbaugh (1951). After her are Dave Navarro (1967), Daphne Zuniga (1962), Marion Jones (1975), Gary Locke (1950), David A. R. White (1970), and Kevin McHale (1957).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Joanna Russ ranks 559Before her are Paula Fox (1923), Eben Alexander (1953), Frank Belknap Long (1901), William Dean Howells (1837), Kenneth Copeland (1936), and Sidney Howard (1891). After her are Paul Theroux (1941), William Gibson (1914), Chris Van Allsburg (1949), Walter J. Ong (1912), Peter S. Beagle (1939), and Frank O'Hara (1926).