Julia Brewer Daily
Author Interview - Julia Brewer Daily
Author of No Names to Be Given
It is 1966. Three unwed women meet in a maternity home to relinquish their babies and return home as if nothing transpired. Twenty-five years later, a blackmailer threatens to expose their secrets...all the way to the White House.
Author I draw inspiration from: Stacey Swann
Favorite place to read a book: Alone in a hotel room
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with: Evelyn Hugo, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author: Fifth grade
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook: Paperback
The last book I read: The Last Flight, Julie Clark
Pen & paper or computer: Computer
Book character I think I’d be best friends with: Kya Clark, Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owen
If I weren’t an author, I’d be a: Dog sitter
Favorite decade in fashion history: 1960s
Place I’d most like to travel: Canada
My signature drink: Tab
Favorite artist: My daughter, Elizabeth Tripp
Number one on my bucket list: Lake House
Anything else you'd like to add: Watching my grown children gives me so much pleasure, I am so happy they survived my motherhood.
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Author Bio: Julia Brewer Daily is a Texan with a southern accent. She holds a B.S. in English and a M.S. degree in Education from the University of Southern Mississippi.
She has been a Communications Adjunct Professor at Belhaven University, Jackson, Mississippi, and Public Relations Director of the Mississippi Department of Education and Millsaps College, a liberal arts college in Jackson, MS.
She was the founding director of the Greater Belhaven Market, a producers’ only market in a historic neighborhood in Jackson, and even shadowed Martha Stewart.
As the Executive Director of the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi (300 artisans from 19 states) which operates the Mississippi Craft Center, she wrote their stories to introduce them to the public.
She is a member of the Writers’ League of Texas, the Women Fiction Writers’ Association, the San Antonio Writers’ Guild, and the Women’s National Book Association.
Daily is an adopted child from a maternity home hospital in New Orleans. She searched and found her birth mother and through a DNA test, her birth father’s family, as well. A lifelong southerner, she now resides on a ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas, with her husband Emmerson and Labrador retrievers, Memphis Belle and Texas Star.