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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. Her roughly four decades in that genre also included writing 26 published short stories, and editing a similar number of anthologies. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Judith Merril is the 6,256th most popular writer (up from 6,444th in 2019), the 11,227th most popular biography from United States (up from 12,031st in 2019) and the 820th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Judith Merril ranks 6,256 out of 7,302. Before her are Christian Prudhomme, Vincenzo Cardarelli, Akiva Goldsman, Katie Couric, Tamara Gverdtsiteli, and August Wilson. After her are Masih Alinejad, Laurent Binet, Robert Henryson, Shrilal Shukla, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and Edwin Arlington Robinson.

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Among people born in 1923, Judith Merril ranks 448. Before her are Lee Yuan-tsu, Alice Ghostley, Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Dannie Abse, Mort Walker, and Hans Wetterström. After her are Óscar González, Valeriya Gnarovskaya, Boris Sagal, Aleksy Antkiewicz, Horace Ashenfelter, and Theo Fitzau. Among people deceased in 1997, Judith Merril ranks 295. Before her are Magda Gabor, Mikhail Anikushin, Mario Velarde, Basri Dirimlili, Red Skelton, and Owen Barfield. After her are Gul Mohammed, LaVern Baker, Sheldon Leonard, Lillian Disney, Jean Louis, and Roger Laurent.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Judith Merril ranks 11,229 out of 20,380. Before her are Amy Pascal (1958), Jesse Metcalfe (1978), Richard Moll (1943), William Hooper (1742), Rick Berman (1945), and August Wilson (1945). After her are Matt Hardy (1974), Larry Young (1940), Levi Woodbury (1789), Stephanie Zimbalist (1956), Viola Dana (1897), and Dick Jones (1927).

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Among writers born in United States, Judith Merril ranks 820. Before her are Jane Smiley (1949), Charlie Jane Anders (1969), Linda Woolverton (1952), Akiva Goldsman (1962), Katie Couric (1957), and August Wilson (1945). After her are Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806), Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869), Robert B. Sherman (1925), John Seigenthaler (1927), Sarah Winnemucca (1844), and Stephen Glass (1972).

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