| Julie L. Kessler grew up in Hawaii and California. Her memoir, Fifty-Fifty, follows her exploration of family ties in Israel and Europe (including those with her elusive father), her discovery of the language, food, and magic of France, her encounters with Hill Tribe women in the mountainous countryside of northern Vietnam – and her chance encounter with the son of a conman whose path she’d unwittingly crossed before.... Julie graduated with a B.A. in political science with honors from the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and received her Juris Doctor degree from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She has traveled to 118 countries, has lived in Japan and in France, and spent significant periods of time in Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Israel. After 20 years practicing as a transactional lawyer, Julie now spends most of her time, when not writing legal commentary for various publications, pursuing good food, good wine, and interesting people as a journalist. For several years she had her own column, "The Traveling Life" in The San Francisco Examiner and her travel articles have also regularly appeared in The L.A. Times, The Asia Times, The Vancouver Courier, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Westways Magazine, The Jerusalem Post, U.S. News & World Report,Travel&Leisure, Luxe Beat Magazine, ExplorEarth, Insider Travel Report,Travel Market Report, Sheridan Road and Hinsdale Living Magazines and The Jewish Journal. She is the Travel& Luxury Editor for Money, Inc where she also writes about luxury cars. She has been a guest several times on the Frommer's Travel Show as well as The American Forces Network Radio. When not circumnavigating the globe or driving fast cars, Julie can be found enjoying her crazy canine not far from an airport in California. |
