Julie Berry (author)
Julie Berry (born September 3, 1974) is an author of children's and young adults books and winner of several national book awards. Biography. Julie Gardner Berry grew up on a farm in rural Medina, New York as the youngest of seven children in a Mormon family. She received a B.S. in communications at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York in 1995 and later earned an M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2008. Berry met her husband, actor Phil Berry at RPI. They married in 1995. They have four sons together. The family  lived for many years in Maynard, Massachusetts, west of Boston, before moving to Temple City, California. During the early years of her writing career Berry also worked as marketing director with the family business, a data collection software company. While living in Maynard, Berry was a columnist for the MetroWest Daily News.