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Julian Guthrie is an award-winning American female journalist and bestselling author based out of San Francisco, California, USA.

Julian Guthrie (♀)
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Nationality USA
OccupationJournalist
Notable work
  • The Billionaire and the Mechanic
  • How to Make a Spaceship

Career

Ms. Guthrie started her SanFran journalism career at the San Francisco Examiner, and after its merger, continued at the San Francisco Chronicle.[1] She published her first book, The Grace of Everyday Saints, in 2011, about a church's closure order. It was based on work she had done as metro reporter covering the church's drama in 2005.[2] In 2013, she published her second book, The Billionaire and the Mechanic,[3] which was updated to include the Oracle Team second win at the America's Cup in its 2014 second edition.[1] Its second edition landed on the New York Times bestsellers list.[4] In 2016, her third book was published, How to Make a Spaceship. This book enticed several offers to acquire the film rights.[5] It landed on the New York Times bestsellers list,[6] and became a finalist in the 2017 PEN/Wilson Literary Science Writing Award,[7] and won the 2016 Emme Astronautical Literature Award.[8] Her fourth book, Alpha Girls, bought up by Currency Books in 2017 for 2019 publication, incited a bidding war in 2017 for its film and TV rights, ending up at Welle Entertainment.[9]

Publications

The Grace of Everyday Saints
Covers the battle of a Roman Catholic congregation to keep their neighborhood church open despite the command by the Church hierarchy to close 'St. Brigid's Church' down.[2]
The Billionaire and the Mechanic
Covers the origins of Team Oracle USA, with founder Larry Ellison, and its quest to win the America's Cup,[3] and through its second edition, the second win of the America's Cup.[1]
How to Make a Spaceship
Covers the origin of the X Prize, its funding woes, the teams that entered the competition, major figures related to the contest, the winning team with SpaceShipOne, and the follow-up of Virgin Galactic scooping up the winning tech.[5] Gregg Easterbrook's review in The Wall Street Journal[10] said of the book that “How to Make a Spaceship” offers a rousing anthem to the urge to explore.
Alpha Girls
Covers the unsung women heroes of Silicon Valley and the computer industry.[9]

Bibliography

  • Julian Guthrie (2011). The Grace of Everyday Saints: How a Band of Believers Lost Their Church and Found Their Faith. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0547133041.
  • Julian Guthrie (2013). The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the America's Cup (1st ed.). Grove Press. ISBN 978-0-8021-2135-6.
  • Julian Guthrie (2016). How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-1594206726.
  • Julian Guthrie (2019). Alpha Girls. Currency Books.[9]

Awards and honors

  • New York Times - Sports Literature - Best Sellers - July 2014 — for 2014 book "The Billionaire and the Mechanic" (announced July 2014)[4]
  • New York Times - Science Literature - Best Sellers - November 2016 — for 2016 book "How to Make a Spaceship" (announced November 2016)[6]
  • Finalist — 2017 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award — for 2016 book "How to Make a Spaceship" (announced January 2017)[7][11]
  • Winner — 2016 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award — for 2016 book "How to Make a Spaceship" (announced September 2017)[8][12]

See also

  • Ashlee Vance, another journalist who also covered a computing billionaire, and also the NewSpace sector.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Julian Guthrie". Space Tech Summit. 2018.
  2. ^ a b Don Lattin (14 August 2011). "'The Grace of Everyday Saints,' by Julian Guthrie". SFGate.
  3. ^ a b "The Billionaire and the Mechanic". Wind Check Magazine. 1 July 2013. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  4. ^ a b "Sports and Fitness -- Bestsellers". New York Times. 6 July 2014.
  5. ^ a b "Come on Hollywood, Give Us an X Prize Movie Already". Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy. Episode 221. Wired Magazine. 16 September 2016.
  6. ^ a b "Science - Best Sellers - November 2016". New York Times. 13 November 2016.
  7. ^ a b "2017 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award". PEN America. 2017.
  8. ^ a b Diane L. Thompson (8 September 2017). "Julian Guthrie Announced as Recipient of American Astronautical Society Emme Award" (PDF). American Astronautical Society (AAS).
  9. ^ a b c April Dawn (25 July 2017). "Silicon Valley Tale "Alpha Girls" Sells to Cathy Schulman's Welle Entertainment". The Industry.
  10. ^ "Gregg Easterbrook review". The Wall Street Journal. 16 September 2016.
  11. ^ "2017 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalists Announced". E.O. Wilson Foundation. 20 January 2017.
  12. ^ Jim Way (14 September 2017). "Emme and Ordway Award Winners Announced". American Astronautical Society (AAS).

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