Julie Orringer

Julie Orringer
Born (1973-06-12) June 12, 1973 (age 51)
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • short story writer
  • professor
NationalityAmerican
Education
SpouseRyan Harty
Website
julieorringer.com

Julie Orringer (born June 12, 1973) is an American novelist, short story writer, and professor. She attended Cornell University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She was born in Miami, Florida and now lives in Brooklyn with her husband, fellow writer Ryan Harty.[1] She is the author of The Invisible Bridge, a New York Times bestseller, and How to Breathe Underwater, a collection of stories; her novel, The Flight Portfolio, tells the story of Varian Fry, the New York journalist who went to Marseille in 1940 to save writers and artists blacklisted by the Gestapo. The novel inspired the Netflix series Transatlantic.

  1. ^ Vaziri, Aidin (January 9, 2011). "ON THE TOWN WITH . . . / Writers Julie Orringer and Ryan Harty". The San Francisco Chronicle.