Julie Berry

Julie Berry (born September 3, 1974) is an American author of children's and young adults books and winner of several national book awards.

Julie Gardner Berry grew up on a farm in rural Medina, New York, as the youngest of seven children in a Mormon family.

She received a B.S. in communications at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York, in 1995 and later earned an M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2008.

Berry met her husband, actor Phil Berry at RPI.

They married in 1995.

They have four sons together.

The family lived for many years in Maynard, Massachusetts, west of Boston, before moving to Temple City, California.

During the early years of her writing career Berry also worked as marketing director with the family business, a data collection software company.

While living in Maynard, Berry was a columnist for the MetroWest Daily News.

Julie and her family moved back to Medina, New York, in 2021.

She purchased the independent bookstore, The Book Shoppe, which she renovated and renamed the Author's Note.

Seven of Berry's books are Junior Library Guild selections: All the Truth That's In Me (2014), The Passion of Dolssa (2017), The Emperor’s Ostrich (2017), Lovely War (2019), and Wishes and Wellingtons (2020).

All the Truth That's in Me was named one of the best books of the year by The Horn Book, Kirkus Reviews, and School Library Journal.

The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place was named one of the best children's books of 2014 by the Wall Street Journal''.

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The Passion of Dolssa was a New York Times Notable Title.

It was also a New York Times Notable Children’s Books of 2016.

Lovely War was a New York Times bestseller and was named one of the best books of 2019 by The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, The Horn Book, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Shelf Awareness, and the Wall Street Journal.