In a 2004 essay about the connections between Russ's work and D. W. Griffith's film Intolerance, Samuel R. Delany describes her as being "one of the finest - and most necessary - writers of American fiction" since she published her first professional short story in 1959.Delany, Samuel R. "Joanna Russ and D. W. Griffith." Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 432, Gale, 2018, pp. 188-194. Gale Literature Criticism. Accessed 8 Dec. 2021. Originally published in PMLA, vol. 119, no. 3, May 2004, pp. 500-508.
In a 2004 essay about the connections between Russ's work and D. W. Griffith's film Intolerance, Samuel R. Delany describes her as being "one of the finest - and most necessary - writers of American fiction" since she published her first professional short story in 1959.Delany, Samuel R "Joanna Russ and D. W. Griffith." Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by La.wrence J. Trudeau, vol. 432, Gale, 2018, pp. 188-194. Gale Literature Criticism. Accessed 8 Dec. 2021. Originally published in PMLA, vol. 119, no. 3, May 2004, pp. 500-508.