Contemp. lesbian writers of the US, 1993: p. 481 (Joanna Russ, born in the Bronx, February 22, 1937) p. 482 (currently a professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle)
New York times WWW site, May 9, 2011 (in obituary published May 7: Joanna Russ; b. Feb. 22, 1937, the Bronx; d. Apr. 29, Tucson, aged 74; writer who four decades ago helped deliver science fiction into the hands of the most alien creatures the genre had yet seen: women)
Internet speculative fiction database, 3 June 2014 (Joanna Russ; born 22 February 1937 in Bronx; died 29 April 2011)
