About – Julie Orringer

 

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Julie Orringer is the author of three award-winning books: The Invisible Bridge, a New York Times bestselling novel; How to Breathe Underwater, a collection of stories; and The Flight Portfolio, a novel about Varian Fry, the New York journalist who went to Marseille in 1940 to save writers and artists blacklisted by the Gestapo. The Flight Portfolio is the inspiration for the Netflix series Transatlantic, which airs April 7, 2023. All of Orringer’s work has been published by Alfred A. Knopf, and her books have been translated into twenty languages. Her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Granta Book of the American Short Story and The Scribner Anthology of American Short Fiction. She is the winner of the Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children, and is at work on a new novel.

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