Julie Keith | |
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Born | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | American, Canadian |
Education | Smith College (BA) Concordia University (MA) |
Period | 1990s–present |
Notable works | The Jaguar Temple, The Devil Out There |
Spouse | Dick Pound |
Children | 2 |
Julie Houghton Keith [1] is an American-Canadian writer, best known for her short-story collections The Jaguar Temple and The Devil Out There.
She was born and brought up near Chicago, [2] and was educated at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She received a B.A. from Smith College in 1962 and an M.A. from Concordia University in 1989. [3] She is married to lawyer Dick Pound, a former vice-president of the International Olympic Committee. [4]
Her first collection of short stories, The Jaguar Temple (Nuage Editions, 1995), was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1995 Governor General's Awards. [2] Her second collection, The Devil Out There (Knopf Canada, 1999), won the Quebec Writers' Federation's award for fiction in 2000. [5]
Keith also won the Quebec Writers' Federation Community Award in 2006. [6]
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