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A biography of the noted science fiction author James Tiptree Jr, which was the pseudonym of Alice B. Sheldon.
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James Tiptree, Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
2015, St. Martin's Press
in English
146688911X 9781466889118
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James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
June 12, 2007, Picador
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in English
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0312426941 9780312426941
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James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
August 8, 2006, St. Martin's Press
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James Tiptree, Jr: the double life of Alice B. Sheldon
2006, St. Martin's Press
in English
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Table of Contents
Introduction.
Who is Tiptree, What is He?
Page 1
1.
The Innocent Adventuress
Page 9
2.
Africa (1921-22)
Page 17
3.
Childhood
Page 26
4.
Cannibals at Home (1924-25)
Page 35
5.
Celebrity (1925-28)
Page 44
6.
Girls' School (1929-30)
Page 54
7.
Like a Du Maurier Heroine (1931)
Page 63
8.
Ambition (1931-1933)
Page 71
9.
"We Have Found It Quite Impossible to Persuade Her to Lead a Normal Life" (1933-34)
Page 77
10.
Love Trouble (1935-36)
Page 90
11.
Sex and Arguing (1936-40)
Page 104
12.
War Fever (1941-42)
Page 116
13.
Fort Des Moines (1942-43)
Page 127
14.
In a Pentagon Basement (1944)
Page 137
15.
Ting (1945)
Page 149
16.
Going Underground (1946-47)
Page 162
17.
Running a Chicken Hatchery in New Jersey (1948-52)
Page 175
18.
The Agency (1952-55)
Page 190
19.
A Disappearance and a Return (1955)
Page 202
20.
Learning to See (1956-59)
Page 210
21.
Chez Women (1950s)
Page 220
22.
Predoctoral Research Grant No. 10,907 (1960-62)
Page 228
23.
Rat Science (1963-67)
Page 236
24.
The Birth of a Writer (1967)
Page 246
25.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Spock (1968)
Page 257
26.
First Contact (1969)
Page 269
27.
The Yucatán (1970)
Page 285
28.
A Decadent Intellectual Faked Up in a Woodman's Shirt (1971)
Page 295
29.
Friendships (1971-73)
Page 308
30.
The Women Men Don't See (1972)
Page 320
31.
A Glass Getting Ready to Crack (1973)
Page 333
32.
"Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" (1973-74)
Page 347
33.
A Tin Rocket (1974)
Page 364
34.
A Sensitive Man (1974-75)
Page 379
35.
Depression (1975-76)
Page 393
36.
Mary's Death (1976)
Page 405
37.
Tiptree Revealed (1976)
Page 414
38.
"I Live In My Body As In an Alien Artifact" (1977)
Page 422
39.
Writing Again (1979-81)
Page 437
40.
Love is the Plan the Plan is Death (1982-87)
Page 446
Acknowledgments
Page 461
Note on Sources
Page 465
Works by Alice B. Sheldon
Page 467
Notes
Page 473
Bibliography
Page 521
Index
Page 525
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