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Julia Anne Sweeney

Born: 1959 in Spokane, Washington
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Sweeney is married to scientist Michael Blum. Blum and Sweeney, along with their adopted daughter Mulan, have lived in the Chicago suburbs since 2009

Biography: Julia Anne Sweeney is an American actress, comedian and author. She is known for her role as a cast member on Saturday Night Live (Pat) and for her autobiographical solo shows. She played Mrs. Keeper in the animated film Stuart Little and voiced Brittany in Father of the Pride.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: julia@juliasweeney.com
Website: http://juliasweeney.com
Julia Anne Sweeney on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=julia++anne+sweeney+


Selected Titles

God said, "Ha!" /
ISBN: 0553379232 OCLC: 36461607

Actress Julia Sweeney, best known as "Pat" on Saturday Night Live, shares the year in her life when her younger brother Mike, their parents, and siblings moved into Julia's new home to be near Mike as he died from lymph cancer, and Julia herself was diagnosed with cervical cancer weeks before Mike's death.

If it's not one thing, it's your mother /
ISBN: 145167404X OCLC: 800031595

While Julia Sweeney is known as a talented comedienne and writer/performer of her one-woman shows, she is also a talented essayist--and the past few years have provided her with some rich material. Julia adopted a Chinese girl named Mulan and then, a few years later, married and moved from Los Angeles to Chicago. She writes about deciding to adopt her child, strollers, nannies, knitting, being adopted by a dog, The Food Network, and meeting Mr. Right through an email from a complete stranger. Some of the essays reveal Julia's ability to find that essential thread of human connection, whether it's with her mother-in-law or with an anonymous customer service rep during a late-night phone call. But no matter what the topic, Julia always writes with elegant precision, pinning her jokes with razor-sharp observations while articulating feelings that we all share.--From publisher description.

It's Pat! :
ISBN: 1562829386 OCLC: 25831826

Hyperion, New York : ©1992.

 

 

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