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Julie Orringer

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June 12, 1973 in Miama, Florida, The United States

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About this author

Julie Orringer is an American author born in Miami, Florida. Her first book, How to Breathe Underwater, was published in September 2003 by Knopf Publishing Group. She is a graduate of Cornell University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney's, Ploughshares, Zoetrope: All-Story, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Best New American Voices, and The Best American Non-Required Reading. She received the Paris Review's Discovery Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, The Yale Review Editors' Prize, Ploughshares' Cohen Award, the Northern California Book Award, and the Anne and Robert Cowan Award from the Jewish Community Endowment Fund. She was the recipient of...more


Average rating: 4.13 · 10,681 ratings · 2,174 reviews · 4 distinct works
The Invisible Bridge
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4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 8,526 ratings — published 2010 — 19 editions
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How to Breathe Underwater
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 2,132 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions
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Note to Sixth-Grade Self
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date: March 24, 2011 07:00PM
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More of Julie's books…
“I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.”
Julie Orringer, How to Breathe Underwater

“And what if I fail?"
"Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.”
Julie Orringer, The Invisible Bridge

“I'm not named after the character,' she said. 'I'm named after the entire opera.”
Julie Orringer, How to Breathe Underwater

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44477 Julie Orringer Discussion Group — 90 members — last activity Feb 01, 2012 04:05am
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