Julia Gregson
{{Short description|British writer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2016}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Julia Gregson
| image =
| image_size =
| alt =
| caption =
| pseudonym =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1947}}
| birth_place = London
| death_date =
| death_place =
| resting_place =
| occupation = Novelist
| language = English
| education =
| alma_mater =
| period = 2004 – present
| genre = Historical fiction
| subject =
| movement =
| notableworks = Jasmine Nights
Band of Angels
East of the Sun
| awards = Literary Review Short Story Award (1990)
Prince Maurice Prize for Literary Love Stories (2009)
Romantic Novel of the Year (2009)
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Unknown spouse
|1966|1972|end=divorced}} - {{marriage|Richard Gregson
|1984|2019|end=his death}}
}}
| partner =
| children = 1
| relatives = Natasha Gregson Wagner (stepdaughter)
Michael Craig (brother-in-law)
Jessica Gregson (niece)
| signature =
| signature_alt =
| website = {{URL|juliagregson.net}}
| portaldisp =
}}
Julia Gregson (born 1947) is a British writer of short stories and novels. Her first published short story won Ryman's Literary Review Short story award. In 2009, her novel East of the Sun won the Prince Maurice Prize for Literary Love stories, and the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.{{Citation|title=Awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association|url=http://www.romanticnovelistsassociation.org/index.php/awards|date=2012-10-14}}
Biography
=Personal life=
At age 19, Gregson married an equally young academic who worked at Sydney University. The marriage ended in divorce after six years.[https://www.standard.co.uk/news/queen-of-the-beach-6853635.html Queen of the beach] London Evening Standard, 4 August 2008[https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/julia-gregson-tells-how-riding-2493889 Julia Gregson tells how riding with Mick Jagger started her writing] WalesOnline, 8 March 2013
She began dating producer/writer Richard Gregson in the late 1970s, and the couple married in 1984. Together they had one daughter, Poppy. She has four stepchildren from her husband's previous marriages, including actress Natasha Gregson Wagner.
Widowed since 2019,[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/10/28/richard-gregson-film-producer-oscar-nominated-screenwriter-agent/ Richard Gregson, film producer, Oscar-nominated screenwriter and agent who counted Robert Redford among his roster of stars – obituary] The Telegraph, 28 October 2019 Gregson lives in Monmouthshire, Wales.{{Citation|title=About Julia Gregson|url=http://www.juliagregson.net/about/|date=2012-10-14}}
=Career=
Julia Gregson was a journalist for Sungravure Magazines in Australia before becoming a foreign correspondent in the United States. She went on assignments to Vietnam, India and Mexico. She started writing short-stories before publishing her first novel in 2004.
Bibliography
- The Water Horse (2004) aka Band of Angels (US title)
- East of the Sun (2008)
- Jasmine Nights (2012)
- Crossing Borders (2014)
- Monsoon Summer (2016)
References and sources
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb name|nm11602910}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gregson, Julia}}
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century British novelists
Category:21st-century British women writers
Category:British women romantic fiction writers
Category:British women novelists
{{UK-writer-stub}}