Julie Gilbert was born in New York City and was edu­cat­ed at Boston Uni­ver­si­ty. She is the author of four books, among them a biog­ra­phy of her great aunt, Edna Fer­ber, Edna Fer­ber and Her Cir­cle and Oppo­site Attrac­tion: The Lives of Erich Maria Remar­que and Paulette God­dard, Gilbert is a mem­ber of The Drama­tists Guild; The Writ­ers Guild of Amer­i­ca; East; The Authors Guild; Actors’ Equi­ty; and League of Pro­fes­sion­al The­ater Women. She has taught Cre­ative Writ­ing at New York University’s School of Con­tin­u­ing Edu­ca­tion and cur­rent­ly heads The Writ­ers Acad­e­my at The Kravis Cen­ter for the Per­form­ing Arts in West Palm Beach, Flori­da, where she lives part time, as well as in New York City.