Who Are You When You Write?
January 3rd, 2007 by 
Maureen McHugh
I’ve just finished a biography of Alice Sheldon, who wrote as James Tiptree Jr. (If by chance you don’t already know this.) Sheldon was not able to write successfully until she adopted a persona—in this case, the persona of a man—which freed her to use a voice with authority, and to write without worrying what people would think.
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