2011 James Tiptree, Jr. Award winner Redwood and Wildfire, by Andrea Hairston, is about a hoodoo woman who migrates from backwoods Georgia north to modern Chicago at the turn of the 20th century.

Julie Phillips biography, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, is an exhaustive look at Tiptree's life, illustrating that she is one of the more fascinating characters in the pantheon of science fiction authors.