（外文电子版资料）Joanna Russ - Poor Man, Beggar Man.pdf

file:///G|/Program%20Files/eMule/Incoming/Joanna%20Russ%20-%20Poor%20Man,%20Beggar%20Man.txt VERSION 1.0 dtd 032700 JOANNA RUSS Poor Man, Beggar Man JOANNA Russ was born February 22, 1937, in the Bronx, New York. Her parents are schoolteachers, and science, literature and books were part of her early environment. She was a Westinghouse STS scholar in 1954. She received her B.A. degree in English from Cornell University in 1957 and her M.F.A. degree in playwriting from the Yale Drama School in 1960. She has acted in community theater (the Brooklyn Heights Players) and semiprofessional groups (the West Broadway Workshop). She began writing at the age of thirteen, and her more than thirty published stories have appeared in science fiction publications such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and the Orbit series, and also in such general publications as Manhattan Review, Epoch, Cimarron Review, The Little Magazine, South, Red Clay Reader and William and Mary Review. At present she is assistant professor of English at Cornell University, teaching creative writing end even, on occasion, science fiction reading. She also reviews books for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and College English, contributes an occasional article to scholarly publications, belongs to Science Fiction Writers of America and the Modern Language Association, and reports that the only hobby she has time for is eating. She offers as her personal philosophy: Women ought to run things, as we are friendlier than men, but alas, that is only because we are not allowed to run things. Her two novels, Picnic on Paradise and A.-7d Chaos Died, were both Nebula Award finalists, as was her novelette The Second Inquisition. In the 1971 Nebula Award balloting her novelette Poor Man, Beggar Man appeared on the final ballot. A strange man, with a black cloak wrapped about him and a fold of it drawn over his head to hide his face, with the easy, gliding step of one