Julie Phillips

Julie Phillips (born Seattle, Washington) is a writer who writes about books, film, and culture. In early adulthood she became interested in feminism. Her articles have appeared in Newsday, Mademoiselle, The Village Voice, and elsewhere. Her biography of James Tiptree, Jr., titled James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, won the National Book Critics Circle Award,[1] the Hugo Award for Best Related Book, and the 2007 Washington State Book Award for History/Biography.

In 2017, she was awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction grant to complete her book The Baby on the Fire Escape.[2] She is also working on a biography of the writer Ursula K. Le Guin.[3]

She currently lives with her husband and two children in Amsterdam,[4] where she is a book critic for the daily newspaper Trouw and for the website 4Columns.

References

  1. ↑ The National Book Critics Circle Award page
  2. ↑ "2017 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grantee: Julie Phillips". Whiting.org. Whiting Foundation. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
  3. ↑ Phillips, Julie (January 25, 2018). "The Subversive Imagination of Ursula K. Le Guin". The New Yorker.
  4. ↑ Interview at Strange Horizons Archived 2007-12-23 at the Wayback Machine.


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