Julie Barlow
Born in 1968, Julie Barlow grew up in Hamilton, Ontario. She began working as a magazine journalist in 1995. Her articles have appeared in magazines and newspapers in Canada the US and Europe, including The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor and the Courier international. Julie learned French in her early 20s and since 1996 has been a regular contributor to Canada’s French language news magazine L’actualité, where she writes on topics ranging from business and food to mental health and immigration. Her work recently won four Honorary Mentions at Canada’s National Magazine Awards and the Quebec Magazine Awards.
In 2003 she published Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong with her husband and writing partner Jean-Benoît Nadeau. The book, translated into French (Pas si fous ces français, Seuil), Dutch and Chinese, was praised in the Wall Street Journal, The Daily Telegraph, Le Monde and Libération and has sold roughly 200 000 copies worldwide. In 2004 Julie published a travel guide on Montreal and Quebec City in the famous “For Dummies” series. In the fall of 2006, Barlow and Nadeau published their second book together, The Story of French, in Canada, the US and the UK.
