Julie Orringer received her BA in English from Cornell University and her MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
[2] She is the winner of the Paris Review's Plimpton Prize and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo.
[8] The novel is based on the experiences of her family in the Holocaust and World War 2,[9] including her grand-uncle Alfred Tibor, who later became a well-known sculptor.
In "The Smoothest Way is Full of Stones," the failure of religious and moral codes—to protect, to comfort, to offer solace—is seen through the eyes of a group of Orthodox Jewish adolescents discovering the irresistible power of their sexuality.
[11] The Invisible Bridge is the story of a young Hungarian-Jewish student who leaves Budapest in 1937 to study architecture in Paris.
The Flight Portfolio is a 2019 novel based on the true story of Varian Fry, an American journalist who, in 1940, went to occupied Europe to help rescue Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust.