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When did the public find out that James Tiptree Jr. was a woman?

  • 1980

  • 1977

  • 1968

  • 1990

Answer

The public found out that James Tiptree Jr. was a woman in 1977 when a writer called Joanna Russ wrote an article for The New York Times Book Review, in which she said that she believed Tiptree was a woman. This was a controversial revelation at the time, as many people were not used to the idea of women writing science fiction.
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