Julian Guthrie

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Julian Guthrie (♀)
Nationality USA
OccupationJournalist
Notable work
  • The Billionaire and the Mechanic
  • How to Make a Spaceship

Julian Guthrie is an award-winning American female journalist and bestselling author based out of San Francisco, California, USA.

Career

Ms. Guthrie started her SanFran journalism career at the San Francisco Examiner, and after its merger, continued at the San Francisco Chronicle.[1] She published her first book, The Grace of Everyday Saints, in 2011, about a church's closure order. It was based on work she had done as metro reporter covering the church's drama in 2005.[2] In 2013, she published her second book, The Billionaire and the Mechanic,[3] which was updated to include the Oracle Team second win at the America's Cup in its 2014 second edition.[1] Its second edition landed on the New York Times bestsellers list.[4] In 2016, her third book was published, How to Make a Spaceship. This book enticed several offers to acquire the film rights.[5] It landed on the New York Times bestsellers list,[6] and became a finalist in the 2017 PEN/Wilson Literary Science Writing Award,[7] and won the 2016 Emme Astronautical Literature Award.[8] Her fourth book, Alpha Girls, bought up by Currency Books in 2017 for 2019 publication, incited a bidding war in 2017 for its film and TV rights, ending up at Welle Entertainment.[9]

Publications

The Grace of Everyday Saints
Covers the battle of a Roman Catholic congregation to keep their neighborhood church open despite the command by the Church hierarchy to close 'St. Brigid's Church' down.[2]
The Billionaire and the Mechanic
Covers the origins of Team Oracle USA, with founder Larry Ellison, and its quest to win the America's Cup,[3] and through its second edition, the second win of the America's Cup.[1]
How to Make a Spaceship
Covers the origin of the X Prize, its funding woes, the teams that entered the competition, major figures related to the contest, the winning team with SpaceShipOne, and the follow-up of Virgin Galactic scooping up the winning tech.[5]
Alpha Girls
Covers the unsung women heroes of Silicon Valley and the computer industry.[9]

Bibliography

  • Julian Guthrie (2011). The Grace of Everyday Saints: How a Band of Believers Lost Their Church and Found Their Faith. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0547133041.
  • Julian Guthrie. The Billionaire and the Mechanic. Grove Press.
    • Julian Guthrie (2013). The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the America's Cup (1st ed.). Grove Press. ISBN 978-0-8021-2135-6.
    • Julian Guthrie (2014). The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the America's Cup, Twice (2nd ed.). Grove Press. ISBN 978-0802121363.
  • Julian Guthrie (2016). How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-1594206726.
  • Julian Guthrie (2019). Alpha Girls. Currency Books.[9]

Awards and honors

  • New York Times - Sports Literature - Best Sellers - July 2014 — for 2014 book "The Billionaire and the Mechanic" (announced July 2014)[4]
  • New York Times - Science Literature - Best Sellers - November 2016 — for 2016 book "How to Make a Spaceship" (announced November 2016)[6]
  • Finalist — 2017 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award — for 2016 book "How to Make a Spaceship" (announced January 2017)[7][10]
  • Winner — 2016 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award — for 2016 book "How to Make a Spaceship" (announced September 2017)[8][11]

See also

  • Ashlee Vance, another journalist who also covered a computing billionaire, and also the NewSpace sector.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Julian Guthrie". Space Tech Summit. 2018.
  2. ^ a b Don Lattin (14 August 2011). "'The Grace of Everyday Saints,' by Julian Guthrie". SFGate.
  3. ^ a b "The Billionaire and the Mechanic". Wind Check Magazine. 1 July 2013. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  4. ^ a b "Sports and Fitness -- Bestsellers". New York Times. 6 July 2014.
  5. ^ a b "Come on Hollywood, Give Us an X Prize Movie Already". Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy. Episode 221. Wired Magazine. 16 September 2016.
  6. ^ a b "Science - Best Sellers - November 2016". New York Times. 13 November 2016.
  7. ^ a b "2017 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award". PEN America. 2017.
  8. ^ a b Diane L. Thompson (8 September 2017). "Julian Guthrie Announced as Recipient of American Astronautical Society Emme Award" (PDF). American Astronautical Society (AAS).
  9. ^ a b c April Dawn (25 July 2017). "Silicon Valley Tale "Alpha Girls" Sells to Cathy Schulman's Welle Entertainment". The Industry.
  10. ^ "2017 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalists Announced". E.O. Wilson Foundation. 20 January 2017.
  11. ^ Jim Way (14 September 2017). "Emme and Ordway Award Winners Announced". American Astronautical Society (AAS).

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