Juliette Fay was born in Binghamton, NY, in 1963, the first of three daughters. The family moved to Massachusetts when she was three. With just one black-and-white TV in the house for much of her childhood, Juliette developed a great love of books.

 

At age 12, Juliette began to write a journal, a practice that would continue for many years. Though it began with a basic recitation of daily drama, Juliette soon experienced the joy of narrating her life to her own specifications. She considers those journals as the vehicle that drove her love of writing.

 

Juliette received a bachelor's degree in human development and theology from Boston College in 1984. Upon graduation, she began a year-long stint in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Seattle, Washington, where she served as an emergency shelter worker and was very quickly treated to the bleak realities of homelessness. Juliette spent two more years in Seattle and co-founded a childcare center for children of homeless families. Returning to the Boston area, she continued her career in human services, which included teaching at a school for autistic children, working at a state child abuse prevention agency, and running a parenting education program. In 1992, she received a master's degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

 

Along the way, she met and married her husband Tom, also a former Jesuit Volunteer, now an attorney in Boston. They have four elementary- to high school-aged children. Juliette took time off from work in state and municipal government after her third child was born and always assumed a return to that career path lay somewhere in her future. However, in 2005, with the youngest then two, fate intervened when she read a really bad book, which made her wonder if she couldn't do a little better, so she began to write each day. Writing fiction is by far the best job she's ever had.

 

Shelter Me, Juliette's first published novel, was designated as one of the ten best works of fiction in 2009 by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Library of Congress. It was also named to the Indie Next List of the American Booksellers Association, was chosen as one of six novels for Target's 2009 Bookmarked Club, and was a Good Housekeeping featured Book Pick. Her second novel, Deep Down True, was published in January 2011 and was short-listed for the Women's Fiction Award of the American Library Association. The Shortest Way Home is her newest novel.

 

  

If you cannot make the event, you can reserve a personalized copy of any of Ms. Fay's books by contacting Fiction Addiction in advance at 864-675-0540 or at info@fiction-addiction.com.

   

 

ABOUT FICTION ADDICTION

Fiction Addiction is a local, woman-owned, independent bookstore established in 2001. The store carries a mixture of new and used fiction and nofiction, including children's books, as well as gift items. We have recently moved to a new location at 1175 Woods Crossing Road (in the shopping center with Five Guys and Fried Green Tomatoes). For more information, visit our website at http://www.fiction-addiction.com or call us at 864-675-0540.

  

ABOUT BOOK YOUR LUNCH

The Book Your Lunch author event program was launched in September 2009, and is a new way to bring authors and readers together -- right here in Greenville. This luncheon series provides the ultimate food for thought with a wide range of authors -- from mystery writers, to award-winning regional novelists to nonfiction and cookbook authors. Jill Hendrix, the owner of Fiction Addiction, founded the event program and is responsible for booking the authors. For more information about Book Your Lunch, please visit our website at http://www.bookyourlunch.com.

  

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