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[[Image:MaryHastingsBradleyLion.JPG|thumb|right|Mary Hastings Bradley and the lion that came back to life.]] '''Mary Wilhelmina Hastings Bradley''' (????-[[1976]]) was an American writer, journalist and explorer. | [[Image:MaryHastingsBradleyLion.JPG|thumb|right|Mary Hastings Bradley and the lion that came back to life.]] '''Mary Wilhelmina Hastings Bradley''' (????-[[1976]]) was an American writer, journalist and explorer. | ||
In the science-fiction community, she is best known for having been the mother of [[James Tiptree, Jr.]]. | In the science-fiction community, she is best known (posthumously) for having been the mother of [[James Tiptree, Jr.]], and her death the occasion of Tiptree's unmasking. Her obituary listed her only child: a daughter. | ||
She was a terrifically prolific writer, who wrote several mystery novels, travelogues, and short stories, and was a foreign correspondant during WWII. | She was a terrifically prolific writer, who wrote several mystery novels, travelogues, and short stories, and was a foreign correspondant during WWII. | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:40, 9 January 2011
Mary Wilhelmina Hastings Bradley (????-1976) was an American writer, journalist and explorer.
In the science-fiction community, she is best known (posthumously) for having been the mother of James Tiptree, Jr., and her death the occasion of Tiptree's unmasking. Her obituary listed her only child: a daughter.
She was a terrifically prolific writer, who wrote several mystery novels, travelogues, and short stories, and was a foreign correspondant during WWII.
Bibliography
Books for children
- Alice in Jungleland (1927)
- Alice in Elephantland (1929)
Travel writing
- On the Gorilla Trail (1922, re-edited in 2005)
- Caravans and Cannibals
- Trailing the Tiger
Novels
(unsorted)
- The Fortieth Door
- The Palace of Darkened Windows
- The Wine of Astonishment
- Nice People Murder
- Unconfessed
- Old Chicago series
- The Fort
- The Duel
- Debt of Honor
- Metropolis
As Told To
- I Passed for White (1955), (Reba Lee, as told to Mary Hastings Bradley)
Short stories
External Links
- IMDb listing (three of her works were adapted to the cinema)
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