![]() ![]() After the publication of two young adult books, she turned her talents to historical romance fiction. ![]() She began her writing career when the youngest of her three children entered school. Julie married young with Gerry Garwood and they had three children: Gerry Jr., Bryan Michael and Elizabeth. I sat on a large dictionary - got up, looked up a word, sat back down." Julie jumped up and down like a jack-in-the-box all summer. Of course, some of the vocabulary was beyond me so I had to look up a lot of words. First, she introduced me to the Nancy Drew mysteries. The patient teacher eventually unlocked the door to the world of reading. By chance, Sister Mary Elizabeth passed us in the hall and was drafted to tutor me." They spent the summer together, and Julie came to know Sister Elizabeth as a friend and mentor. "When I got there the nuns immediately realized I wasn't even remedial. "I hated it." At the age of 11, her mother discovered her daughter's secret and promptly enrolled her in a summer remedial reading class at the local high school. She fell hopelessly behind in school and never caught up. At the age of six, Julie had her tonsils removed and complications from the surgery resulted in a long period of recuperation. ![]() She is the sixth of eight children in a large Irish family. Julie Murphy was born in 1946 in Kansas City, Missouri. ![]()
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