James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon

Name: James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
Author: Julie Phillips
ISBN: 9781466889118

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#448 of 3,809 books · #204 in Biography & Memoir

Won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2006).

James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, a Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year, and one of Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year. Alice Bradley Sheldon was born in Chicago in 1915. As a child, she crossed Africa with her explorer parents. Later she became a painter, a CIA agent, a psychologist, and at age fifty-one made yet another career change. James Tiptree, Jr., appeared on the science fiction scene in 1967. His stories were fast-paced and hard-boiled, his letters frank and sensitive. For nearly ten years he carried on intimate correspondences with fellow writers Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, and Ursula K. Le Guin. But no one knew who he really was. Then, assumptions about writing and gender were demolished when "he" was revealed to be Alice B. Sheldon. Based on extensive research and full access to Sheldon's papers, James Tiptree, Jr., is the suspenseful, engrossing, and tragic biography of a profoundly original writer and woman far ahead of her time.

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