Julie Cope Hilden (April 19, 1968 - March 17, 2018) was an American
novelist
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and
lawyer.
Biography
Hilden grew up in
Hawaii
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and
New Jersey
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. She graduated with a B.A. in philosophy from
Harvard College
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, a J.D. from
Yale Law School
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, and an M.F.A. from
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...
.
Upon graduating from law school, she clerked for then-Chief Judge
Stephen G. Breyer of the
U.S. Court of Appeals
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for the
First Circuit, and for Judge
Kimba M. Wood of the
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
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. She was admitted to the New York and District of Columbia bars. She was a
litigation associate at the
law firm of
Williams & Connolly in
Washington, D.C.
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, from 1996 to 1999. She worked on
First Amendment
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,
criminal defense,
appellate
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cases, and other issues. As a
legal writer her commentaries can be found on her webpage at Justia's Verdict. She was a legal commentator on ''
Good Morning America'',
Court TV, CNN, and
NPR
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, and local television and radio stations. She lived for several years with her husband,
Stephen Glass
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. Hilden passed away at the age of 49 due to complications from
early-onset Alzheimer's disease
Early-onset Alzheimer's disease, also called younger-onset Alzheimer's, is Alzheimer's disease diagnosed before the age of 65. It is an uncommon form of Alzheimer's, accounting for only 5–10% of all Alzheimer's cases. About 60% have a positive ...
, the same illness with which her mother had dealt.
Bibliography
''The Bad Daughter'', a memoir, is Julie Hilden’s first book. Her second book and first
novel, ''3'', was published by
Plume in August 2003.
Actes Sud
Actes Sud is a French publishing house based in Arles. It was founded in 1978 by author Hubert Nyssen. By 2013, the company, then headed by Nyssen's daughter, Françoise Nyssen, had an annual turnover of 60 million euros and 60 staff members.
H ...
Publishing translated it for the French market,
Bantam Books released it in the UK, and it received a Czech translation. ''3'' was optioned for a film adaptation; Hilden was reportedly writing the first draft of the screenplay.
References
External links
Legal articles at Findlaw.com(web.archive.org)
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21st-century American novelists
American legal writers
American women novelists
American romantic fiction writers
Cornell University alumni
Harvard College alumni
Yale Law School alumni
American women lawyers
Women romantic fiction writers
21st-century American women writers
American women non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
1968 births
2018 deaths