klwilliams | Once again the computer thinks I'm a man who is really a woman

I am:

James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice B. Sheldon)

In the 1970s she was perhaps the most memorable, and one of the most popular, short story writers. Her real life was as fantastic as her fiction.

I wish I was (my mother knew her as Sheldon). Being Le Guin isn't a bad consolation prize, though.

---L.