Julie Keith

Julie Keith
Julie Keith
Born	Chicago, Illinois
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American, Canadian
Alma mater	Smith College; Concordia University
Period	1990s-present
Notable works	The Jaguar Temple, The Devil Out There
Spouse	Dick Pound

Julie Houghton Keith[1] is an American-Canadian writer, best known for her short story collections The Jaguar Temple and The Devil Out There.

Background

She was born and brought up near Chicago,[2] and was educated at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She received a B.A. from Smith College in 1962 and an M.A. from Concordia University in 1989.[3] She is married to lawyer Dick Pound, a former vice-president of the International Olympic Committee.[4]

Her first collection of short stories, The Jaguar Temple (Nuage Editions, 1995), was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1995 Governor General's Awards.[2] Her second collection, The Devil Out There (Knopf Canada, 1999), won the Quebec Writers' Federation's award for fiction in 2000.[5]

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"Ultimate Games insider crusades against doping". Calgary Herald, July 10, 2004.
"Grescoe a double-winner at Quebec writers' awards". The Gazette, December 1, 2000.
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