num_pages: 545
description: James Tiptree, Jr., burst onto the science fiction scene in the late 1960s with a series of hard-edged, provocative stories. He redefined the genre with such classics as 
  Houston, Houston, Do You Read?
 and The Women Men Don't See. For nearly ten years he wrote and carried on intimate correspondences with other writers—Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, and Ursula K. Le Guin, though none of them knew his true identity. Then the cover was blown on his alter ego: "he" was actually a sixty-one-year-old woman named Alice Bradley Sheldon. A feminist, she took a male name as a joke—and found the voice to write her stories. Based on extensive research, exclusive interviews, and full access to Alice Sheldon's papers, Julie Phillips has penned a biography of a profoundly original writer and a woman far ahead of her time.
language: English
title: James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
titlecomplete: James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
characters: Alice Bradley Sheldon
genres: Gender, Biography, History, Writing, Female Authors, Womens, Nonfiction, Feminism, Biography Memoir, LGBT
ratings_count: 1313
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Related Book, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Washington State Book Award
category: History/Biography, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Marfield Prize (National Award for Arts Writing)
publisher: Picador