James, Jr. Tiptree

JTJ 's story Love is the Plan the Plan is Death, in Stephen Goldin 's volume The Alien Condition, was unprecedented in having as narrator a giant insect, a primitive, arachnoid alien.

JTJ 's novella Houston, Houston, Do You Read? appeared in Vonda N. McIntyre and Susan Janice Anderson 's anthology Aurora: Beyond Equality, whose contributors were asked to imagine a gender-equal society.

Alice Bradley, better known later as James Tiptree, Jr , was born in Chicago, an only child who four years later became an only surviving child.

In the early hours of the morning Alice Sheldon (in fiction James Tiptree, Jr ) died in accordance with a suicide pact with her now blind husband . She shot him while he slept, made...

Alice Sheldon , past forty, having re-evaluated her marriage and resolved to write a book on the aesthetics of art, enrolled as an undergraduate at American University in Washington, DC.

Ten years after enrolling as a mature undergraduate, Alice Sheldon successfully defended her doctoral thesis, which then appeared in the Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology.

Alice Bradley and William Davey were married at Waukegan, Illinois, at 3 a.m.; they had met just five days before, at a formal dance to mark Alice's coming out into society.

The divorce went through between Alice and William Davey .

Alice Bradley Davey married Huntington Sheldon (known as Ting), her commanding officer, at St Germain-en-Laye in France.

The friendship between Alice Sheldon (as James Tiptree, Jr ) and Ursula K. Le Guin began with a message of admiration sent to Le Guin from JTJ about her novel The Lathe of Heaven.

Alice Sheldon completed JTJ 's last story, In Midst of Life, in February 1987, three months before she killed her husband and herself. It appeared in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in November...

Alice Davey , having re-enlisted in the newly reconstituted Women's Army Corps , was posted to the Pentagon in Washington, DC, where she was soon working at the new skill of photointerpretation.

On VE (Victory in Europe) Day Alice Davey was posted overseas to London, one of a group of technical experts who were to work on extracting specialist knowledge and skills from the expiring German Luftwaffe .

The New Yorker published a heavily edited article by Alice Bradley (the author's last appearance in print before the debut of James Tiptree, Jr ), entitled The Lucky Ones.

Writing as JTJ , Alice Sheldon sold her first two science fiction stories: Birth of a Salesman (published in Analog, March 1968) and Fault (Fantastic, August 1968).