George Washington University

She enjoyed mixing with her much younger fellow-students, but worried that academic work (at which she now for the first time excelled) was useful to nobody besides herself. She graduated summa cum laude in...

In Washington, DC, in the late 1950s, UM took some university courses in writing. At George Washington University she took a course in writing for children, and at the drama school of the Catholic University of America

After completing her PhD, Alice Sheldon spent several years doing research (exploring rats' capacity for empathy, which was an unfashionable interest in a psychology department of behaviourists) and teaching at both American University and George Washington

UM returned to writing short stories later in life, while living in Washington, DC. They emerged from a course in writing for children which she attended at George Washington University .