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Biography:
Brief
biography from The Norton Book of Science Fiction, ed.
by Ursula K. LeGuin & Brian Attebery
James
Tiptree, Jr.,
was the pen name of Alice Sheldon, born in 1916 in Chicago,
daughter of a distinguished family of explorers. She served in
Air Force Intelligence during the Second World War and after
it in photo intelligence in the CIA. In the fifties she earned
a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and began writing fiction. Her
brilliant, disturbing stories are to be found in five
collections, including Star Songs of an Old Primate (1978),
Warm Worlds and Otherwise (1975), and 10,000 Light
Years from Home (1973)· Her two novels are UP the
Walls of the World (1978) and Brightness Falls from the
Air (1985). She won two Hugo and three Nebula Awards (one
as Raccoona Sheldon, a second pen name), and was awarded, but
refused, the Nebula Award for "The Women Men Don't
See."
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