For years afterward she was referred to in public (her parents were prominent in Chicago society) as Alice in Wonderland. As a child, she was taken more than once to Africa on safari, her first such experience being chronicled by her mother, Mary Hastings Bradley (1882-1976), a prolific author who made her daughter a public figure in Alice in Jungleland ( 1927), a travel book for children which included photos of young Alice visiting parts of Africa not yet fully "discovered" by Westerners this volume included several illustrations plus an illustrated cover properly credited to Alice Hastings Bradley, the first of Sheldon's several names to see print. But Sheldon's literary career (she took the name of her second husband at some point after 1945) began much earlier than 1946. Beginning in 1974, she also wrote several sf stories as Raccoona Sheldon, and some earlier non-fantastic work under other names, including her first fiction, "The Lucky Ones" (16 November 1946 New Yorker) as Alice Bradley. "James Tiptree Jr" flourished from 1967 until her identity was exposed in 1977. Pseudonym of US psychologist and author Alice Hastings Bradley Sheldon (1915-1987), who was widely assumed to be a man, despite the deep rapport "he" displayed for women in stories like "The Women Men Don't See" (December 1973 F&SF).
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