Julie Buxbaum

Julie Buxbaum received her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and then went on to earn a law degree at Harvard Law School. Though she worked in the legal field for a while, she quit so she could write her first novel, The Opposite of Love, in 2009. Though her first two novels were intended for adults, Buxbaum realized that she enjoyed writing for teens much more after she published her first young adult novel, Tell Me Three Things, in 2016. Tell Me Three Things was inspired by several events in Buxbaum’s life. Like the protagonist, Jessie, Buxbaum lost her mother when she was 14 years old. She was inspired to write the novel after the birth of her second child, as she contemplated the fact that her mother was never going to see who she became as an adult. At one point in her life, Buxbaum also received an anonymous encouraging email, just as Jessie does. Buxbaum currently lives in London with her husband and children, and she continues to write young adult novels.