WRITER

Judith Merril

1923 - 1997

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Judith Josephine Grossman (January 21, 1923 – September 12, 1997), who took the pen-name Judith Merril around 1945, was an American and then Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist, and one of the first women to be widely influential in those roles. Although Judith Merril's first paid writing was in other genres, in her first few years of writing published science fiction she wrote her three novels (all but the first in collaboration with C. M. Kornbluth) and some stories. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Judith Merril has received more than 139,983 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Judith Merril is the 6,444th most popular writer, the 12,027th most popular biography from United States and the 882nd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Beyond the barriers of space and time
Fantasy fiction, Science fiction
Wolf pack / Walter M. Miller, Jr. No one believed me / Will Thompson Perforce to dream / John Wyndham The Laocoön complex / J.C. Furnas Crazy Joey / Mark Clifton and Alex Apostolides The golden man / Philip K. Dick Malice aforethought / David Grinnell The last séance / Agatha Christie Medicine dancer / Bill Brown Behold it was a dream / Rhoda Broughton Belief / Isaac Asimov The veldt / Ray Bradbury Mr. Kinkaid's pasts / J.J. Coupling The warning / Peter Phillips The ghost of me / Anthony Boucher The wall around the world / Theodore R. Cogswell Operating instructions / Robert Sheckley Interpretation of a dream / John Collier Defense mechanism / Katherine MacLean.
1954
England swings SF
English Science fiction
1968
Daughters of Earth
American Science fiction
1968
Gunner Cade
American Science fiction
1952
Path Into The Unknown
1966
SF; the best of the best
Science fiction
1967

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Judith Merril ranks 6,444 out of 7,302. Before her are John Ralston Saul, Joel Barlow, Robert Elsie, Joe Medicine Crow, Alexandre del Valle, and Ann Oakley. After her are Ted Tally, Tierno Monénembo, Rosa María Britton, Thomas Beatie, Nahed Hattar, and Robert Cormier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Judith Merril ranks 465. Before her are Antonio Siddi, Horace Ashenfelter, Theo Fitzau, Balbir Singh Sr., Balram Jakhar, and Dale Robertson. After her are Chuck Daigh, Jimmy Mullen, Don Barksdale, Larry Rivers, Ninian Stephen, and Frank Brian. Among people deceased in 1997, Judith Merril ranks 312. Before her are Božena Srncová, Yevgeni Mayorov, Jimmy Witherspoon, P. H. Newby, Jimmy Rogers, and Troy Ruttman. After her are Sally Blane, William Alland, Francis Johnson, Fyodor Simashev, Chuck Arnold, and Floyd Cramer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Judith Merril ranks 12,027 out of 20,380. Before her are Mark Parkinson (1957), Lucas Till (1990), Eddie Griffin (1968), Mekhi Phifer (1974), Dale Robertson (1923), and Christopher Cousins (1960). After her are Adrian Dantley (1956), Scott Hahn (1957), Jason White (1973), Jay Harrington (1971), Ted Tally (1952), and Chuck D (1960).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Judith Merril ranks 882. Before her are James Lipton (1926), Daniel Handler (1970), Helen Gurley Brown (1922), J. P. Donleavy (1926), Joel Barlow (1754), and Joe Medicine Crow (1913). After her are Ted Tally (1952), Thomas Beatie (1974), Robert Cormier (1925), Brené Brown (1965), Amy Sherman-Palladino (1966), and Ellen Glasgow (1873).

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