C. J. Cherryh
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1 September 1942
- Works
- 189
Top works
- Prentice Hall Literature--Florida--Language and Literacy
- Prentice Hall Literature [Grade Ten]
- Rimrunners
- The faded sun
- Regenesis
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 38
- Total plays
- 501
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Evolving thermal thresholds explain the distribution of temperature sex reversal in an Australian dragon lizard
· 2020 · cited 32x
- MAST: Phylogenetic Inference with Mixtures Across Sites and Trees
· 2024 · cited 30x
- SIMPLIFIED RED-CELL ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY TEST FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
· 1979 · cited 24x
- How to engage Millennials: Re-imagining the consumer as a partner, not a target audience, to increase engagement
· 2015 · cited 6x
- PLASMA ORIGIN OF RED-CELL-MEMBRANE CHANGES IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
· 1980 · cited 5x
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Key facts
- Born
- Carolyn Janice Cherry , ( 1942-09-01 ) September 1, 1942 (age 83) , St. Louis , Missouri , U.S.
- Pen name
- C. J. Cherryh
- Occupation
- Novelist , short story author , essayist , high school teacher
- Education
- University of Oklahoma ( BA ), Johns Hopkins University ( MA )
- Period
- 1976–present
- Genre
- Science fiction , fantasy
- Notable works
- Alliance–Union universe , Foreigner series
- Notable awards
- Hugo Award , Locus Award , Prometheus Award
- Spouse
- Jane Fancher ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2014 )
- Relatives
- David A. Cherry (brother)
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 1 September 1942
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Cherry
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- St. Louis
- Sibling
- David A. Cherry
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- French
- Genre
- fantasy
Article
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 editor Donald A. Wollheim felt "Cherry" sounded too much like a romance writer. She used only her initials, C. J., to disguise that she was female at a time when the majority of science fiction authors were male.
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