Julie M. Fenster

Julie M. Fenster
Born	(1957-11-20) November 20, 1957 (age 67)
Alma mater	Colgate University
Genre	non-fiction
Subject	American history; medical history; biography; automotive history; travel; business and economics

Julie M. Fenster (born November 20, 1957) is an American author of historical articles and books focusing on 19th-century events and persons.

Biography

Fenster graduated from Colgate University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. ^[1] She worked as a journalist for the Syracuse Post-Standard and Automobile Quarterly . ^[1]

In the 1990s, she wrote travel guides, including Boston Guide (Open Road Publishing, 1997), and America's Grand Hotels (Open Road Publishing, 1998). ^[1]

Fenster wrote American history articles for American Heritage magazine, several of which were later expanded into books. ^[2] She has also written for Invention & Technology , The New York Times , Los Angeles Times , American History, and Audacity. ^[1]

In January 2006, she and co-author Douglas Brinkley released Parish Priest , a biography of Father Michael J. McGivney, the founder of the Knights of Columbus. ^[3] In 2009, she published a biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt's early political advisor Louis Howe, titled FDR's Shadow: Louis Howe, the Force that Shaped Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.

She is the co-author of Debbie Wasserman Schultz's 2013 book For the Next Generation: A Wake-Up Call to Solving Our Nation's Problems. ^[4]

She appeared in a TV commercial for Cheapbooks, which aired in early 2008. She is shown at a book signing for her work Race of the Century.

Notable works

• Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It. New York: Harper (2001) ISBN   0060195231
• Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine: The Pioneers Who Risked Their Lives to Bring Medicine into the Modern Age. Carroll & Graf (2003) ISBN   0786712368
• Race of the Century: The Heroic True Story of the 1908 New York to Paris Auto Race. New York: Crown (2006) ISBN   0609610961
• Packard: The Pride. New Albany, IN: Automobile Quarterly Publications (2005)
• Parish Priest: Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism (with Douglas Brinkley). New York: Morrow (2006)
• The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2007) ISBN   140397635X
• FDR's Shadow: Louis Howe, the Force That Shaped Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2009) ISBN   0230609104
• The Spirit of Invention: The Story of the Thinkers, Creators, and Dreamers Who Formed Our Nation. New York, NY: HarperCollins (2009) ISBN   9780061231896
• Jefferson's America: The Expeditions That Made a Nation. New York: Crown (2014) ISBN   0307956482

Awards

In 2003, she won The Anesthesia Foundation's 2003 Book/Multimedia Education Award for Ether Day. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

References

1. Encyclopedia.com, Fenster, Julie M.
2. American Heritage, June-July, 2005, "Cars, Cards, and Father: A Trio of American Heritage Authors Have Expanded Their Articles into Books" (review of Race of the Century)
3. "Julie M. Fenster | Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
4. Schultz, Debbie Wasserman; Fenster, Julie M. (15 October 2013). For the Next Generation: A Wake-Up Call to Solving Our Nation's Problems. ISBN   978-1250000996.
5. "Julie M. Fenster". HarperCollins Publishers: World-Leading Book Publisher.
6. "Julie M. Fenster | AMERICAN HERITAGE". www.americanheritage.com.
7. "ASA January 2004 Newsletter". Sep 27, 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27.

External links

• The Ether Controversy: Milestone in American Medicine; review/criticism;
• Interview on The Case of Abraham Lincoln at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library
• Appearances on C-SPAN