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{{Short description|American speculative fiction author (born 1942)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> | name = C. J. Cherryh | image = Carolyn Janice Cherry.jpg | imagesize = 215px | caption = Cherryh at [[Norwescon|NorWesCon]] in 2006 | pseudonym = C. J. Cherryh | birth_name = Carolyn Janice Cherry | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1942|9|1|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = [[Novelist]], [[Short story|short story author]], [[essay]]ist, [[Teacher|high school teacher]] | education = [[University of Oklahoma]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Johns Hopkins University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]]) | period = 1976–present | genre = [[Science fiction]], [[fantasy]] | subject = | movement = | signature = | website = {{URL2|https://cherryh.com/WaveWithoutAShore/}} | notableworks = [[Alliance–Union universe]], [[Foreigner series|''Foreigner'' series]] | awards = [[Hugo Award]], [[Locus Award]], [[Prometheus Award]] | spouse = {{marriage|[[Jane Fancher]]|2014}}<ref name=Fancher/><ref name=Fancher2/> | relatives = [[David A. Cherry]] (brother) }} '''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|''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 novel|romance]] writer.<ref>[http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sf/written-faq rec.arts.sf.written FAQ]. ''Pronunciation of Cherryh''.</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bj9Jbnak3S0C&pg=PA19|title = The Cherryh Odyssey |title-link=The Cherryh Odyssey |last = Gunn|first = James|author-link = James E. Gunn (writer)|publisher = Borgo Press|year = 2004|isbn = 978-0809510702|pages = 19–20|editor-last = Carmien|editor-first = Edward|chapter = Introduction: What We Do For Love}}</ref> The asteroid [[77185 Cherryh]] is named in the author's honor. The asteroid's discoverers wrote of Cherryh: "She has challenged us to be worthy of the stars by imagining how mankind might grow to live among them."<ref>[http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=77185 JPL Small-Body Database Browser] ''Asteroid 77185 Cherryh''.</ref>
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