There's nothing wrong with engaging in speculation about the author's life and mental state when talking about a work of art -- some of them pretty much demand such a reaction -- as long as you keep in mind that a lot of such big theories have been proven embarrassingly wronghttps://twitter.com/Hal_Duncan/status/1340688363339300866 …
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Very, very few of James Tiptree's colleagues -- including ones who considered themselves his close friends -- seriously suspected him of being a woman before Alice Sheldon's exposure, despite how a lot of them rewrote history to claim they did afterwards
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Just like, say, a ton of people knowingly smirked that Secret Diary of a Call Girl was a fake written by a man, before Brooke Magnanti went public
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