Julie Cope Hilden (April 19, 1968 – March 17, 2018) was an American novelist and lawyer.
Biography
Hilden grew up in
Hawaii and
New Jersey. She graduated with a B.A. in philosophy from
Harvard College, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and an M.F.A. from Cornell University.
Upon graduating from law school, she clerked for then-Chief Judge Stephen G. Breyer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
First Circuit, and for Judge Kimba M. Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She was admitted to the New York and District of Columbia bars. She was a
litigation associate at the
law firm of Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., from 1996 to 1999. She worked on First Amendment,
criminal defense,
appellate cases, and other issues.
As a
legal writer her commentaries can be found on her webpage at Justia's Verdict. She was a legal commentator on
Good Morning America,
Court TV, CNN, and
NPR, and local television and radio stations. She lived for several years with her husband,
Stephen Glass.
Hilden died at the age of 49 due to complications from early-onset Alzheimer's disease, the same illness with which her mother had suffered.
Bibliography
The Bad Daughter, a memoir, is Julie Hilden’s first book. Her second book and first
novel,
3, was published by Plume in August 2003.
Actes Sud Publishing translated it for the French market,
Bantam Books released it in the UK, and it received a Czech translation.
3 was optioned for a film adaptation; Hilden was reportedly writing the first draft of the screenplay.
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