Salvaggio, Ruth
Entry updated 2 June 2026. Tagged: Author, Critic.
(? - ) US academic and critic, Professor of American Studies and English & Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Octavia Butler and the Black Science-Fiction Heroine" in Black American Literature Forum for Summer 1984, and returned to the subject of Octavia E Butler in her long essay "Octavia Butler" in Suzy McKee Charnas / Joan Vinge / Octavia Butler (anth 1987), whose other contributors were Marleen S Barr and Richard Law. [DRL]
Ruth Salvaggio
born New Orleans, Louisiana
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nonfiction
- Suzy McKee Charnas / Joan Vinge / Octavia Butler (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1987) with Marleen S Barr and Richard Law [nonfiction: anth: edited by Roger Schlobin: the Butler essay is by Salvaggio: Starmont Reader's Guide: pb/Stephen Fabian]
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