In her spare time, she would write, using the mythology of Rome and Greece as plots for her stories of the future. During the summers, she would conduct student tours of the ancient ruins in England, France, Spain, and Italy. : 79 While her job was teaching Latin, her passion was the history, religion, and culture of Rome and Ancient Greece. In 1965, she received a Master of Arts degree in classics from Johns Hopkins University : 79 in Baltimore, Maryland, where she was a Woodrow Wilson fellow.Īfter graduation, Cherryh taught Latin, Ancient Greek, the classics, and ancient history at John Marshall High School in the Oklahoma City public school system. In 1964, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Latin from the University of Oklahoma : 79 ( Phi Beta Kappa), with academic specializations in archaeology, mythology, and the history of engineering. She began writing stories at the age of ten when she became frustrated with the cancellation of her favorite TV show, Flash Gordon.
Louis, Missouri and raised primarily in Lawton, Oklahoma. JSTOR ( September 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ĭherryh was born in 1942 in St.Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. This section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Referring to this 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." Biography The author has an asteroid, 77185 Cherryh, named after her.
J., to disguise that she was female at a time when the majority of science fiction authors were male. Wollheim, felt that "Cherry" sounded too much like a romance writer. She is known for worldbuilding, depicting fictional realms with great realism supported by vast research in history, language, psychology, and archeology.Ĭherryh (pronounced "Cherry") appended a silent "h" to her real name because her first editor, Donald A. 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. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction. Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C.
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