Julie Berry | |
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Born | September 3, 1974 |
Occupation | Author |
Nationality | American |
Education | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (BS) Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA) |
Genres | |
Notable works | All the Truth That's in Me (2014) Lovely War (2019) |
Notable awards | Inky Award (2014) Whitney Award (2019) Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award (2020) Golden Kite Award (2020) |
Spouse | Phil Berry (m. 1995) |
Julie Berry (born September 3, 1974) [1] [2] is an American author of children's and young adults books and winner of several national book awards.
Julie Gardner Berry grew up on a farm in rural Medina, New York, as the youngest of seven children in a Mormon family. [3] [4] She received a B.S. in communications at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York, in 1995 and later earned an M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2008. [5] [6] Berry met her husband, actor Phil Berry at RPI. They married in 1995. They have four sons together. [5] The family lived for many years in Maynard, Massachusetts, west of Boston, before moving to Temple City, California. [7] [8] During the early years of her writing career Berry also worked as marketing director with the family business, a data collection software company. [6] While living in Maynard, Berry was a columnist for the MetroWest Daily News. [6]
Julie and her family moved back to Medina, New York, in 2021. She purchased the independent bookstore, The Book Shoppe, which she renovated and renamed the Author's Note. [9]
Seven of Berry's books are Junior Library Guild selections: All the Truth That's In Me (2014), [10] The Passion of Dolssa (2017), [11] [12] The Emperor’s Ostrich (2017), [13] Lovely War (2019), [14] [15] and Wishes and Wellingtons (2020). [16]
All the Truth That's in Me was named one of the best books of the year by The Horn Book, Kirkus Reviews , and School Library Journal . [10]
The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place was named one of the best children's books of 2014 by the Wall Street Journal . [5]
The Passion of Dolssa was a New York Times Notable Title.
Lovely War was a New York Times bestseller [17] and was named one of the best books of 2019 by The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, [18] The Horn Book, [19] Kirkus Reviews, [20] Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, [12] Shelf Awareness , [21] and the Wall Street Journal. [22] It was also a New York Times Notable Children’s Books of 2016. [12]
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