Joanna Russ
February 22, 1937 – April 29, 2011
Place of Birth:
New York City, New York, U.S.
Place of Death:
Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
Joanna Russ (February 22, 1937 – April 29, 2011) was an American writer, academic and radical 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. She is best known for The Female Man, a novel combining utopian fiction and satire, and the story "When It Changed".