Julia Glass (born March 23, 1956) is an American

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. Her

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Three Junes ''Three Junes'' is Julia Glass' debut novel. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 2002.

'', won the

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in 2002."National Book Awards – 2002"

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(With acceptance speech by Glass and essay by Judy Blundell from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) Glass followed ''Three Junes'' with a second novel, ''The Whole World Over'', in 2006, set in the same Bank Street–

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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

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, grew up in Belmont, Massachusetts and

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, and attended

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. She graduated from

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in 1978. Intending to become a painter, she moved to

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, where she lived for many years, painting in a small studio in

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and supporting herself as a freelance editor and copy editor, including several years in the copy department of ''

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'' magazine. She lives in

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, 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 Awar
acceptance speech by GlassAuthor's Random House pageInterview with Julia Glass on The Writing LifeInterview with Julia Glass on The Widower's Tale
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