by Julie Phillips
"What I do with emotion is not, strictly, to ‘bottle it up.’ I parcel it out. I make it drive me in work; I try to use it to understand the world; I occasionally try to form or express little bits in objective writing or drawing; I try to stay out of situations which encourage it; I take it out in p...
Julie Phillips has done a great service in writing this exhaustive biography of Alice B. Sheldon. Starting from before conception to her untimely suicide in 1987, Phillips explores Sheldon's remarkable life from African explorer, to WAC, to CIA photo analyst, to psychology PhD, to science fiction a...
I am currently halfway through this book, halfway through the story of Alice Sheldon's life, and already she has been:An African explorer in her childhoodA debutanteAn unhappy young wife and college dropoutA WAC in WWIIThe owner / operator of a chicken HatcheryAn employee of the CIAA College / Gradu...
James Tiptree Jr. was a science-fiction author who became popular in the 1960's and 1970's. Tiptree wrote complex and jarring fiction, somehow managing to bring chaos to life, sympathy to monsters, and heroes to their own self-destruction. Tiptree is also a woman, masquerading under a pseudonym. Her...
A wonderful book! A wonderful human, she managed to fool them all! This was one of those biographies I like to just devour, when I find out what a marvelous human someone was.
A fascinating biography of Alice Sheldon, better known as award-winning science fiction author James Tiptree, Jr. Phillips gives us a great deal of detail but the narrative does not bog down; though most people picking up the book know that Tiptree's identity was eventually revealed, and of her life...
I don't read many biographies, because I already know the end of the story and none of them end well. But, if one is interested in the troubled lives of writers who were oppressed by society's expectations, this is one to read.
I can't remember if I started reading Tiptree's bizarre but often good for a mindf**k stories before I knew that she had been outed as a female writer. This biography is a fascinating tour through her upper-class explorer childhood, to stints as a WAC to working at the CIA. Finally she falls into ...
James Tiptree Jr. was known to those of us reading Sci Fi in the early 70's and on as an award winning writer. His books and short stories were unique, even for Science Fiction. He carried on correspondence with several successful Sci Fi writers, including Harlan Ellison and Ursula K LeGuin. All o...
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