James, Jr. Tiptree

In 1973, as the hunt to uncover the identity of James Tiptree, Jr was heating up, Alice Sheldon began planning another work on psychology: The Human Male. How odd it would be, she argued,...

Galaxy carried JTJ 's story The Last Flight of Dr. Ain, which critics have called one of the author's best.

As she worked on The Human Male she also planned an essay (originally a journalism column) to be written as by James Tiptree, Jr : Tiptree's Dead Birds, in which Alice's passions for women...

Alice Bradley and her parents set out from Chicago via New York, London, Paris, and Bordeaux, to land at Douala in Cameroon in February 1931 with the intention of crossing Africa from west to east.

Until Alice Sheldon began to make money as James Tiptree, Jr , the need to make a living, not to be dependent on her parents or her second husband (whose taste and experience leaned towards...