Julie Phillips is the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon and The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem.
A biographer and critic fascinated by questions of gender and creative work, she has written for many publications including 4Columns, LitHub, and The New Yorker. The recipient of a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, she lives in Amsterdam with her partner and their two children.
Books in order of publication:
James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon – 2006
The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem – 2022
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