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Julia Glass Biography & Facts

Julia Glass (born March 23, 1956) is an American novelist. Her debut novel, Three Junes, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2002. Glass followed Three 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 from Three Junes. 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 in Boston, grew up in Belmont, Massachusetts and Lincoln, Massachusetts, and attended Concord Academy. She graduated from Yale in 1978. Intending to become a painter, she moved to New York City, where she lived for many years, painting in a small studio in Brooklyn and supporting herself as a freelance editor and copy editor, including several years in the copy department of Cosmopolitan magazine. She lives in Marblehead, 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. She is a previous winner of the William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. References External links National Book Award acceptance speech by Glass Author's Random House page Interview with Julia Glass on The Writing Life Interview with Julia Glass on The Widower's Tale. Discover the Julia Glass popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Julia Glass books.

Best Seller Julia Glass Books of 2024

  • A Beautiful Spy synopsis, comments

    A Beautiful Spy

    Rachel Hore

    From the millioncopy Sunday Times bestseller comes a thrilling novel about a woman with an extraordinary life, based on a true story.   'Fantastic… Exciting, impeccably ...

  • The Main Character synopsis, comments

    The Main Character

    Jaclyn Goldis

    A bestselling thriller author arranges a luxury train trip that is not what it appears to be in this electrifying modern homage to Agatha Christie from the author of the “tense and...

  • Anonymous Sex synopsis, comments

    Anonymous Sex

    Hillary Jordan & Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

    27 Authors. 27 Stories. No Names Attached.A bold collection of stories about sex that leaves you guessing who wrote what.Bestselling novelists Hillary Jordan and Cheryl LuLien Tan ...

  • The Winters in Bloom synopsis, comments

    The Winters in Bloom

    Lisa Tucker

    Every marriage has three stories: the husband’s, the wife’sand the one they create together.Every marriage has three stories: the husband’s, the wife’sand the one they create toget...

  • Fever synopsis, comments

    Fever

    Mary Beth Keane

    From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a novel about the woman known as “Typhoid Mary,” who becomes, “in Keane’s assured hands…a sympathetic, complex, and even inspiring ch...

  • The Girl Behind the Gates synopsis, comments

    The Girl Behind the Gates

    Brenda Davies

    TOP TEN BESTSELLER'Compelling. Poignant. Haunting. Heart wrenching. Just beautiful. Everyone needs to read this wonderful book.' Renita D'Silva, bestselling author of The Forgotte...

  • The Fair Botanists synopsis, comments

    The Fair Botanists

    Sara Sheridan

    SELECTED AS THE WATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022'Compelling, fascinating . . . A cracking good read' Val McDermid'An evocative, enjoyable portrait of 1820s Edinburgh' Sun...

  • The Winter Spirits synopsis, comments

    The Winter Spirits

    Bridget Collins, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Natasha Pulley, Jess Kidd, Andrew Michael Hurley, Elizabeth Macneal, Laura Purcell, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Stuart Turton, Catriona Ward, Laura Shepherd-Robinson & Susan Stokes-Chapman

    FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON COMES A DAZZLING COLLECTION OF NEVERBEFORESEEN GHOSTLY TALES.'Terrific every bit as good as an MR James collection' ROSIE ANDREWS, author ...

  • And the Dark Sacred Night synopsis, comments

    And the Dark Sacred Night

    Julia Glass

    From the National Book Award–winning author of Three Junes, a "tender, insightful, and winning exploration of the modern family and the infinite number of shapes it can take" ...

  • Vigil Harbor synopsis, comments

    Vigil Harbor

    Julia Glass

    From the National Book Awardwinning, bestselling author of Three Junes comes "an engrossing, richly drawn and exquisitely told story of smalltown residents grappling with the diffi...

  • Dumpling Dreams synopsis, comments

    Dumpling Dreams

    Carrie Clickard

    “Through appealing digitally rendered illustrations and upbeat rhyming text, Clickard celebrates the life of Chen in a way that entertains and informs.” School Library Journal“A fa...