Seattle, Washington
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) is an American writer who writes about books, film, and culture. In early adulthood she became interested in feminism. Her articles have appeared in ''
Newsday
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The Village Voice
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'', and elsewhere. Her biography of
James Tiptree, Jr.
Alice Bradley Sheldon (born Alice Hastings Bradley; August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author better known as James Tiptree, Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 to her death. It was not publicly known ...
, titled ''James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon'', won the
National Book Critics Circle Award
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Washington State Book Award
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for History/Biography.
In 2017, she was awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction grant to complete her book ''The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem,'' which was published in 2022. She is also working on a biography of the writer
Ursula K. Le Guin
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.
She lives with her husband and two children in
Amsterdam
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