Julie Schumacher

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.

Books in order of publication:

The Body is Water – 1995

Grass Angel – 2004

The Chain Letter – 2005

The Book of One Hundred Truths – 2006

Black Box – 2008

The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls – 2012

Dear Committee Members – 2014

The Shakespeare Requirement – 2018

The English Experience – 2023