Julia Glass | |
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Julia Glass at the 2010 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | (1956-03-23)March 23, 1956 (age 69) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Notable awards | William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition National Book Award |
| Partner | Dennis Cowley |
| Children | 2 |
Julia Glass (born March 23, 1956) is an Americannovelist. Herdebut novel,Three Junes, won theNational Book Award for Fiction in 2002.[1]
Glass followedThree Junes with a second novel,The Whole World Over, in 2006, set in the same Bank Street–Greenwich Village universe, with three interwoven stories featuring several characters fromThree Junes.[2] Her third novel,I See You Everywhere, was published in 2008; her fourth,The Widower's Tale, in 2010; her fifth,And the Dark Sacred Night, in 2014; her sixth,The House Among the Trees, in 2017; her seventh,Vigil Harbor, in 2022.
Glass was born inBoston, grew up in Belmont, Massachusetts andLincoln, Massachusetts, and attendedConcord Academy. She graduated fromYale in 1978. Intending to become a painter, she moved toNew York City, where she lived for many years, painting in a small studio inBrooklyn and supporting herself as a freelance editor and copy editor, including several years in the copy department ofCosmopolitan magazine. She lives inMarblehead, Massachusetts, with her partner, the photographer Dennis Cowley, and their two children, and works as a freelance journalist and editor, while teaching fiction writing at Emerson College.[3] She is a previous winner of theWilliam Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition and a 2015James Merrill House Fellow.