Joanna Russ

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. She is best known for The Female Man, a novel combining utopian fiction and satire.