James, Jr. Tiptree

In 1974-5 JTJ participated (until he was politely asked to leave) as one of two participants in a symposium arranged by Jeffrey D. Smith to discuss therelationship of women with science fiction. Smith was to...

Neat Sheets: The Poetry of James Tiptree, Jr ., published in November 1996, is paradoxically titled, since all but two items in it are from a folder put together in the 1940s and 50s...

JTJ was a prolific letter-writer, even when her writing for publication was not going well. She described her life and doings to her parents, in detail though with far from full disclosure; she took up...

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...