Julia Duin

Julia Duin Biography

Julia Duin is an American journalist and author with an interest in religious topics. She has written five books and was the religion editor for The Washington Times for 14 years. In 2015, she received a Wilbur Award for an article in the magazine More about Nadia Bolz-Weber. She has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize three times.

Biography

Duin was born in Baltimore and moved to Hawaii with her family at the age of six weeks. She attended high school in Seattle, where she began writing magazine articles.

Duin graduated from Lewis & Clark College in 1978, where she received her bachelor's degree in English. In 1992, she received her first master's degree, in religion, from Trinity School for Ministry, and in 2014 she received a second master's degree, in journalism, from the University of Memphis. For the 2014/15 academic year, she relocated to Alaska and occupied the Snedden Chair in the journalism department at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Her story on snake handlers led to three Pulitzer Prize nominations. Her most recent book, Days of Fire and Glory, tells the story of Graham Pulkingham and the Church of the Redeemer in Houston, Texas. Currently, she is working on The Kurdish Princess, a book about Kurdish people targeted at young adults.

Duin is fluent in French, has conversational speaking ability in Spanish and German, and "speaks portions of Kurdish, Arabic, Russian and Italian."

Duin has a daughter, Olivia Veronika ("Veeka"), who was born in Kazakhstan and adopted. She currently lives in Seattle and has traveled to nearly every state in the United States.

Books

Days of Fire and Glory (2009); Crossland Press; ISBN 9780979027970
Quitting Church: Why the Faithful Are Fleeing and What to Do about It (2009); Baker Books; ISBN 9780801072277
Knights, Maidens and Dragons: Six medieval tales of virtue and valor (2004); Xlibris: ISBN 9781413433715
Purity Makes the Heart Grow Stronger: Sexuality and the Single Christian (1988); Servant Publications; ISBN 9780892833733
Wholly Single (1988); Shaw (Harold) Publishers; ISBN 9780877889458

Articles

A longer list of the subject's articles can be found at www.juliaduin.com/articles

Received 2015 Wilbur Award for Magazine Articles: National or Top 15 Metro Markets.

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