James Tiptree Jr.

Alice Bradley Sheldon was an American science fiction and fantasy author better known as James Tiptree Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 until her death. It was not publicly known until 1977 that James Tiptree Jr. was a woman. From 1974 to 1985 she also occasionally used the pen name Raccoona Sheldon. Tiptree was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2012.

24 August 1915

Born on the same birth date (24 August 1915): Wynonie Harris

Born on the same birth day (24 August): Alaungpaya • Alexander McCall Smith • Brian Rajadurai • David Ireland (author) • Enrique Hernández (baseball) • Griffin Gluck • Haim Ernst Wertheimer • Harry Markowitz • José Bosingwa • Kenny Guinn • Marcel Goc • Peder Griffenfeld • Preston Foster • Reynaldo (footballer, born 1989) • Théodore Dubois • Tom Kendall • Tugay Kerimoğlu

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