J. Courtney Sullivan
Julie Courtney Sullivan, better known as J. Courtney Sullivan, is an American novelist and former writer for The New York Times.
Life and Career
Sullivan grew up outside of Boston[1]. She attended Smith College and graduated in 2003, then moved to New York and began working at Allure[2]. Her writing has since appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Chicago Tribune, New York magazine, The New York Observer, Men's Vogue, Elle, and Glamour.
In 2010, Sullivan published her first novel, Commencement, which became a New York Times bestseller. Her second novel, Maine, was named one of the top ten fiction books of 2011 by Time magazine[3]
Sullivan comes from an Irish-Catholic family where many of the women go by their middle rather than first names.
Books
Fiction
- Commencement (2010)
- Maine (2011)
Nonfiction
- Dating Up: Dump the Schlump and Find a Quality Man (2007)
- Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists (2010) (co-editor with Courtney E. Martin)