Smith, Julie

American author and published, was born in Annapolis, Maryland, and grew up in Savannah in Georgia. She studied Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi, where she also graduated with a B.A. in Journalism in 1965. She then worked as a reporter, first in New Orleans, Louisiana, and then for several years for the San Francisco Chronicle. For a while, she was also the press spokesman for a district attorney’s office. She moved from California back to New Orleans where, together with some acquaintances who dreamed of becoming writers – among them, Marcia Muller – in 1979 she co-founded Invisible Ink, a freelance company for the production and editing of texts. In 1995, she married businessman Lee Pryor.