James Tiptree, Jr. - Revision history

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	* http://davidlavery.net/Tiptree/		* http://davidlavery.net/Tiptree/
	* [http://www.usmm.net/avc-mast45.html American Veterans Committee Organizes veterans 1945] -- mentions Capt. Alice B. Davey, WAC		* [http://www.usmm.net/avc-mast45.html American Veterans Committee Organizes veterans 1945] -- mentions Capt. Alice B. Davey, WAC
			* [http://www.ucls.uchicago.edu/photo_album/1920s/187tigerart.html] -- Childhood photo of Alice Bradley at school.

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	* [[With Delicate Mad Hands]]		* [[With Delicate Mad Hands]]
	* [[The Girl Who Was Plugged In]]		* [[The Girl Who Was Plugged In]]

			==References==
			{{reflist}}

	== Further reading ==		== Further reading ==

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	Although Tiptree was married to men through most of her adult life, she was more of a bisexual. "I like some men a lot, but from the start, before I knew anything, it was always girls and women who lit me up."		Although Tiptree was married to men through most of her adult life, she was more of a bisexual. "I like some men a lot, but from the start, before I knew anything, it was always girls and women who lit me up."

	She published her first story ("[[The Lucky Ones (Tiptree story)\|The Lucky Ones]]") in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', Nov. 16, 1946 issue, credited variously as "Alice Bradley" and "Alice Bradley Sheldon". In 1967 she adopted the James Tiptree, Jr. pseudonym, consciously using a male name. While widely known to be a pseudonym, most people assumed the writer was male. [[Harlan Ellison]] introduced Tiptree's story, "[[The Milk of Paradise]]", in ''[[Again, Dangerous Visions]]'', saying that "[[Kate Wilhelm\|Wilhelm]] is the woman to beat this year, but Tiptree is the man." [[Robert Silverberg]] described Tiptree's writing as "ineluctibly masculine" in his 1975 introduction to ''[[Warm Worlds and Otherwise]]'', attempting to dispel rumors that Tiptree was female. He described the notion that Tiptree was a woman as "absurd", a notion brought about by some people who thought it impossible for a man to be as clue-ful about women as Tiptree's writing.		She published her first story ("[[The Lucky Ones (Tiptree story)\|The Lucky Ones]]") in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', Nov. 16, 1946 issue, credited variously as "Alice Bradley" and "Alice Bradley Sheldon". In 1967 she adopted the James Tiptree, Jr. pseudonym, consciously using a male name. While widely known to be a pseudonym, most people assumed the writer was male. [[Harlan Ellison]] introduced Tiptree's story, "[[The Milk of Paradise]]", in ''[[Again, Dangerous Visions]]'', saying that "[[Kate Wilhelm\|Wilhelm]] is the woman to beat this year, but Tiptree is the man." [[Robert Silverberg]] described Tiptree's writing as "ineluctibly masculine" in his 1975 introduction to ''[[Warm Worlds and Otherwise]]'', attempting to dispel rumors that Tiptree was female. He described the notion that Tiptree was a woman as "absurd", a notion brought about by some people who thought it impossible for a man to be as clue-ful about women as Tiptree's writing. [[Theodore Sturgeon]] described Tiptree as the male equivalent of the great new female writers of the 1970s.<ref>[[Susan Shwartz]], "Women and Science Fiction", ''NYT'', 1982/5/2</ref>

	When Tiptree's [[Mary Hastings Bradley\|mother]] died in 1976, Tiptree mentioned the death; enterprising fans found the obituary and [[outing\|outed]] Tiptree as Alice.		When Tiptree's [[Mary Hastings Bradley\|mother]] died in 1976, Tiptree mentioned the death; enterprising fans found the obituary and [[outing\|outed]] Tiptree as Alice.

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	==Biography==		==Biography==
	Born to Mary Hastings Bradley (a writer) and Herbert Bradley (a lawyer and naturalist), Tiptree spent her childhood traveling with her parents. At 19 (1934) she married William Davey. In 1941 she and Davey divorced, and she joined the US Army soon after (in 1942), working in intelligence. She married Huntington Sheldon in 1945, resigned from the military in 1946, ran a small business until 1952 when she and her husband joined the CIA, and then returned to college ultimately completing a Ph.D. at George Washington University in 1967 in experimental psychology. On May 19, 1987, she shot her ailing husband and then herself, having suffered from depression through much of her adult life.		Born to Mary Hastings Bradley (a writer) and Herbert Bradley (a lawyer and naturalist), Tiptree spent her childhood traveling with her parents. Her mother, [[Mary Hastings Bradley]], published two books about Alice's travels, ''Alice in Jungleland'' and ''Alice in Elephantland'', to which Alice (then Hastings Bradley) contributed illustations.

			At 19 (1934) she married William Davey. In 1941 she and Davey divorced, and she joined the US Army soon after (in 1942), working in intelligence. She married Huntington Sheldon in 1945, resigned from the military in 1946, ran a small business until 1952 when she and her husband joined the CIA, and then returned to college ultimately completing a Ph.D. at George Washington University in 1967 in experimental psychology. On May 19, 1987, she shot her ailing husband and then herself, having suffered from depression through much of her adult life.

	Although Tiptree was married to men through most of her adult life, she was more of a bisexual. "I like some men a lot, but from the start, before I knew anything, it was always girls and women who lit me up."		Although Tiptree was married to men through most of her adult life, she was more of a bisexual. "I like some men a lot, but from the start, before I knew anything, it was always girls and women who lit me up."
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	She published her first story ("[[The Lucky Ones (Tiptree story)\|The Lucky Ones]]") in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', Nov. 16, 1946 issue, credited variously as "Alice Bradley" and "Alice Bradley Sheldon". In 1967 she adopted the James Tiptree, Jr. pseudonym, consciously using a male name. While widely known to be a pseudonym, most people assumed the writer was male. [[Harlan Ellison]] introduced Tiptree's story, "[[The Milk of Paradise]]", in ''[[Again, Dangerous Visions]]'', saying that "[[Kate Wilhelm\|Wilhelm]] is the woman to beat this year, but Tiptree is the man." [[Robert Silverberg]] described Tiptree's writing as "ineluctibly masculine" in his 1975 introduction to ''[[Warm Worlds and Otherwise]]'', attempting to dispel rumors that Tiptree was female. He described the notion that Tiptree was a woman as "absurd", a notion brought about by some people who thought it impossible for a man to be as clue-ful about women as Tiptree's writing.		She published her first story ("[[The Lucky Ones (Tiptree story)\|The Lucky Ones]]") in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', Nov. 16, 1946 issue, credited variously as "Alice Bradley" and "Alice Bradley Sheldon". In 1967 she adopted the James Tiptree, Jr. pseudonym, consciously using a male name. While widely known to be a pseudonym, most people assumed the writer was male. [[Harlan Ellison]] introduced Tiptree's story, "[[The Milk of Paradise]]", in ''[[Again, Dangerous Visions]]'', saying that "[[Kate Wilhelm\|Wilhelm]] is the woman to beat this year, but Tiptree is the man." [[Robert Silverberg]] described Tiptree's writing as "ineluctibly masculine" in his 1975 introduction to ''[[Warm Worlds and Otherwise]]'', attempting to dispel rumors that Tiptree was female. He described the notion that Tiptree was a woman as "absurd", a notion brought about by some people who thought it impossible for a man to be as clue-ful about women as Tiptree's writing.

	When Tiptree's ~~mother,~~ Mary Hastings Bradley, died in 1976, Tiptree mentioned the death; enterprising fans found the obituary and [[outing\|outed]] Tiptree as Alice.		When Tiptree's [[Mary Hastings Bradley\|mother]] died in 1976, Tiptree mentioned the death; enterprising fans found the obituary and [[outing\|outed]] Tiptree as Alice.

	== Bibliography ==		== Bibliography ==

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	'''James Tiptree, Jr.''' is the pseudonym (1967 to death in 1987) of '''Alice Hastings Bradley Sheldon''', born Alice Hastings Bradley, retired Major Alice Davey after WWII, erstwhile CIA photointelligence operative, Ph.D. in psychology, and therefore no stranger to name changes and aliases even before she began publishing science fiction under the Tiptree pseudonym.		'''James Tiptree, Jr.''' is the pseudonym (1967 to death in 1987) of '''Alice Hastings Bradley Sheldon''', born Alice Hastings Bradley, retired Major Alice Davey after WWII, erstwhile CIA photointelligence operative, Ph.D. in psychology, and therefore no stranger to name changes and aliases even before she began publishing science fiction under the Tiptree pseudonym.