Julia George is the pen name of a husband and wife writing team. 

Their first novel was the award-winning cozy mystery comic Galya Popoff and the Dead Souls (Best of 2012 in its category on Kirkus). This was followed by Blood into Wine, a traditional detective novel set in Napa Valley. Kirkus Reviews called Blood into Wine “A great vintage, with an edge of barbaric murder, a hint of romance, and the smooth aftertaste of justice served.” The Mars 7 is Julia’s science fiction novel for young adults.

They both graduated from UC Berkeley and went on to create the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival. George was also a resident director at the Berkeley Repertory Theater. George and Julia worked in numerous regional theaters both on the West Coast and in Chicago and New York. George had a brief stint as a talent agent in New York, and then commercially produced Broadway shows in San Francisco and Chicago.

George also spent a fascinating year in the Soviet Union working for the State Department. He traveled all over the USSR, met thousands of people, and handed out thousands of “forbidden” books, gratis. The following year he returned to film a documentary in Siberia. George was the first American allowed to film actual gulag camps at Kolyma which, because of their location above the Arctic Circle, are still in-tact. 

Julia and George live in Northern California where the sun always shines and the absurdity never stops.