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Julie Schumacher


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Wilmington, DE
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JULIE SCHUMACHER grew up in Wilmington, Delaware, and graduated from Oberlin College and Cornell University, where she earned her MFA. Her first novel, The Body Is Water, was published by Soho Press in 1995 and was an ALA Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her 2014 novel, Dear Committee Members, won the Thurber Prize for American Humor; she is the first woman to have been so honored. She lives in St. Paul and is a faculty member in the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English at the University of Minnesota.

Average rating: 3.74 · 34,731 ratings · 6,404 reviews · 26 distinct worksSimilar authors
Dear Committee Members

3.77 avg rating — 21,699 ratings — published 2014 — 24 editions
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The Shakespeare Requirement

3.74 avg rating — 4,023 ratings — published 2018
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The English Experience

3.86 avg rating — 2,815 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions
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Black Box

3.76 avg rating — 1,912 ratings — published 2000 — 20 editions
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The Unbearable Book Club fo...

3.23 avg rating — 1,459 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions
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The Book of One Hundred Truths

3.68 avg rating — 821 ratings — published 2006 — 13 editions
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The Body Is Water

3.54 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 1995 — 10 editions
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The Chain Letter

3.31 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions
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Grass Angel

3.55 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions
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An Explanation for Chaos

3.74 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions
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“Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?”
Julie Schumacher, Black Box

“Boredom is why God invented books.”
Julie Schumacher, The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

“A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.”
Julie Schumacher, Black Box

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