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  <name><![CDATA[Julia Flynn Siler]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Julia Flynn Siler is the author of &lt;I&gt;The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty&lt;/i&gt;, published by Penguin’s Gotham Books in June, 2007.

A graduate of Brown University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Ms. Flynn Siler began her career as a staff correspondent for &lt;I&gt;BusinessWeek&lt;/i&gt;, working in the magazine’s Los Angeles and Chicago bureaus. She wrote about Midwestern businesses for &lt;I&gt;The New York Times&lt;/i&gt; and earned an MBA at night from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

In 1993, she won a fellowship to teach business journalism in Prague. Based out of the Center for Independent Journalism, a not-for-profit organization supported, in part, by The New York Times Foundation, Ms. Flynn Siler then went on to serve as a London-based foreign correspondent, first for &lt;I&gt;BusinessWeek&lt;/i&gt; and then for &lt;I&gt;The Wall Street Journal&lt;/i&gt;. She wrote about everything from Dolly the cloned sheep to Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Airways.

In 2000, she moved back to the U.S. to join a family business in San Francisco and raise her two young sons. After a few years, Ms. Flynn Siler returned to writing for &lt;I&gt;The Wall Street Journal&lt;/i&gt;. One of her first stories was about the turmoil within the Mondavi family’s wine empire, which ran as a front page story in June of 2004.

That story led to her book &lt;I&gt;The House of Mondavi&lt;/i&gt;, which involved more than 500 hours of interviews and examination of tens of thousands of pages of documents. Ms. Flynn Siler is a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors and continues to write for &lt;I&gt;The Wall Street Journal&lt;/i&gt; out of its San Francisco bureau, focusing on family businesses, wine, and philanthropy.

Ms. Flynn Siler is also a member of the San Francisco-based writing collective North 24th. The group’s members have four books scheduled to be published in 2007-2008. She is involved in a wide range of community volunteer activities. She and her husband have two sons and live in Northern California.]]></about>            
  
  
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