Julie Maxwell

Julie Maxwell is a novelist and literary critic.

Her debut novel You Can Live Forever (Jonathan Cape) won a Betty Trask Award and was Book of the Month on BBC Radio 5 Live and a TLS Book of the Year. These Are Our Children (Quercus) was an Observer Book of the Year. She has thrice been the recipient of an Authors' Foundation award from the Society of Authors. The Image of the King (Sharpe Books) was her first historical novel and followed by a sequel, The Blind Fugitive (Sharpe Books).

Julie Maxwell is also a Shakespeare scholar and has held Fellowships in English Literature at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities. She co-edited Shakespeare and Quotation (Cambridge University Press) with Kate Rumbold, and contributed book chapters to How To Do Things With Shakespeare (ed. Laurie Maguire) and Ben Jonson In Context (ed. Julie Sanders). She has written on numerous contemporary literary topics for Arete magazine.

You can find her on X @JMaxwellAuthor