Julie Deaver
Born: 1953 in Glen Ellyn, Il
Pen Name: Julie Reece Deaver, Julie R. Deaver Connection to Illinois: Deaver was born and raised in Glen Ellyn. She attended Glenbard West High School and studied acting and improv comedy at Chicago's Second City. Biography: Julie Deaver is a writer and an artist. She grew up in a very creative family. Her mother was an artist and her father was an advertising writer. Her brother, Jeffery Deaver, is also an author.
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Selected Titles
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Chicago blues / ISBN: 0060246758 OCLC: 31290230 HarperCollins, New York, NY : ©1995. Lissa, a seventeen-year-old art student living on her own in Chicago, must raise her eleven-year-old sister when their alcoholic mother becomes incapable of caring for her. |
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First wedding, once removed / ISBN: 0064404021 OCLC: 21162447 Depicts thirteen-year-old Pokie's friendship with her older brother and the changes it undergoes when her brother falls in love. |
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Say goodnight, Gracie / ISBN: 0064470075 OCLC: 20611826 Harper Keypoint Books, New York, N.Y. : 1989, ©1988. When a car accident kills her best friend Jimmy, with whom she has shared everything from childhood escapades to breaking into the professional theater scene in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Morgan must find her own way of coping with his death. |
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The night I disappeared / ISBN: 0743439791 OCLC: 49777559 Simon Pulse, New York : 2002. When Jamie and her mother travel to Chicago so her mother can defend a client, Jamie's world takes a strange turn. Mind slips and vivid daydreams begin to paralyze her as she feels she is slowly losing her mind. |
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You bet your life : ISBN: 006021516X OCLC: 26503915 While working as an intern on a popular television comedy show produced in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Bess tries to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who committed suicide six months earlier. |