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Julia Duin is an American journalist and author who is Newsweek's religion correspondent. [1] She has written seven books and was the religion editor for The Washington Times for 14 years. [1] [2] She has received three Wilbur Awards, most recently for a 2017 article in the Washington Post Magazine about Paula White, spiritual adviser to then-president Donald Trump. [3]

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Biography

Duin was born in Baltimore and moved to Hawaii with her family at the age of six weeks. [4] She attended high school in Seattle, [5] where she began writing magazine articles. [4]

Duin graduated from Lewis & Clark College in 1978, where she received her bachelor's degree in English. In 1992, she received her first master's degree, in religion, from Trinity School for Ministry, and in 2014 she received a second master's degree, in journalism, from the University of Memphis. [4] For the 2014/15 academic year, she relocated to Alaska and occupied the Snedden Chair in the journalism department at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. [6]

Duin's 2013 report for the Wall Street Journal on snake handlers. [7] [8] Her 2009 book, Days of Fire and Glory, tells the story of Graham Pulkingham and the Church of the Redeemer in Houston, Texas. [2] [9] Her first individual Wilbur Award was for a 2014 article in More about Nadia Bolz-Webber. [10] Currently,[ when? ] she is working on The Kurdish Princess, a book about Kurdish people targeted at young adults. [11]

Duin is fluent in French, has conversational speaking ability in Spanish and German, and "speaks portions of Kurdish, Arabic, Russian and Italian." [4] She has a daughter, who was born in Kazakhstan and adopted. [4] She currently lives in Seattle. [5]

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