Julie Yip-Williams (January 6, 1976 – March 19, 2018) was an American lawyer and writer, born Diep Ly Thanh in Vietnam.

She was blind from congenital cataracts, and a grandmother pressured her parents to find an herbalist to end the baby's life.

[2] In 2013, after being diagnosed with colon cancer, Yip-Williams started a blog, to share her experience with the disease and treatment, and to leave a record of herself for her young daughters.

In her last months, she also made recordings for a podcast produced by Eleanor Kagan, titled Julie.

[6] The book was frequently compared to Paul Kalanithi's memoir When Breath Becomes Air (2016), and Nina Riggs' The Bright Hour (2017), which both had similar themes.