 As she was in need of a way to support herself, her parents helped her find a job as an art critic for the "Chicago Sun" after it launched in 1941.Newly divorced, she started going by the name Alice Bradley Davey as a journalist, a job she held until she enlisted for the army in 1942.Bradley discovered science fiction in 1924, when she read her first issue of "Weird Tales," but she wouldn't write any herself until years later.