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Alice Bradley Sheldon (born Alice Hastings Bradley; August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author better known as James Tiptree Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 until her death. It was not publicly known until 1977 that James Tiptree Jr. was a woman.
May 15, 2024 · James Tiptree, Jr. (born August 24, 1915, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died May 19, 1987, McLean, Virginia) was an American science fiction author known for her disturbing short stories about love, death, gender, and human and alien nature.
Jul 26, 2018 · When popular science fiction writer James Tiptree, Jr., acclaimed as an epitome of masculine writing, publicly revealed in 1977 that she was actually Alice Bradley Sheldon, readers were gobsmacked.
James Tiptree Jr. has 237 books on Goodreads with 73962 ratings. James Tiptree Jr.’s most popular book is Her Smoke Rose Up Forever.
Nov 12, 2006 · Science fiction writer James Tiptree, Jr. earned the reputation of being a male author who understood women. Tiptree's stories often addressed gender issues -- on Earth and in worlds beyond.
James Tiptree Jr. began writing science fiction in 1967. His stories were fast-paced and hard-boiled, his letters funny, frank, and sensitive. No one had ever seen him. No one knew his true identity. There were rumors he was a government spy.
In that year she began writing as James Tiptree, Jr, taking on the persona of an emotionally robust and engaging middle-aged man with Pentagon experience whose only oddity was that no one had ever met him. Nicknaming herself "Tip" in her widespread correspondence, she had found a voice to speak in.
Alice Bradley Sheldon (born Alice Hastings Bradley; August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author better known as James Tiptree Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 until her death. It was not publicly known until 1977 that James Tiptree Jr. was a woman.
James Tiptree, Jr. was the pen name of Alice B. Sheldon, who kept her true identity secret for the majority of her career. A complex figure, she came from outside the genre yet embraced its modes to boldly examine issues of sex, gender identity, male/female relations, and death.
James Tiptree Jr, the pen name of Alice Bradley Sheldon (1915 - 1987) is widely considered to be one of the most influential genre writers of the twentieth century, and a pioneer of feminist science-fiction.
