Julie Keith

Julie Keith
Julie Keith
Born	Chicago, Illinois
Occupation	short stories
Nationality	American/Canadian
Period	1990s-present
Notable works	The Jaguar Temple, The Devil Out There
Spouse	Dick Pound

Julie Keith 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,^[1] 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.^[2] She is married to lawyer Dick Pound, a former vice-president of the International Olympic Committee.^[3]

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.^[1] Her second collection, The Devil Out There (Knopf Canada, 1999), won the Quebec Writers' Federation's award for fiction in 2000.^[4]

^ ^a ^b "The Giller v. the G-Gs: a tale of two literary awards". The Globe and Mail, November 4, 1995.
^ "MEMBER PROFILE - JULIE KEITH". The Writers' Union of Canada. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
^ "Ultimate Games insider crusades against doping". Calgary Herald, July 10, 2004.
^ "Grescoe a double-winner at Quebec writers' awards". The Gazette, December 1, 2000.
^ "De Niro's Game wins two Quebec prizes". Ottawa Citizen, November 24, 2006.

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