Julie Hayden

Julie Hayden was an American short story writer and staff member at The New Yorker magazine. In 1976, Viking Press published her only collection of short stories, The Lists of the Past.[1] Day-old Baby Rats is one of her famous stories, which was chosen and read in 2010 by writer Lorrie Moore on the "New Yorker" podcast with fiction editor Deborah Treisman.[2] Hayden's story collection was recently selected by bestselling author Cheryl Strayed for republication with Pharos Editions out of Seattle, Washington, and will be published in May 2014.

Hayden was born in Larchmont, N.Y., and educated at Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private girls' school in Greenwich, CT, and at Radcliffe College, from which she graduated cum laude in 1961 with a Bachelors degree in English.[3]

In 1966 she joined the staff of The New Yorker and worked there as the newsbreak editor for 16 years, until her death.[4] During this time, she published ten short stories in the magazine (republished in The Lists of the Past). Shortly following the publication of her collection in 1976, a breast cancer diagnosis and rapid decline into ill health and advancing alcoholism appear to have prevented significant further writing. (Additional research needed on uncollected stories published after 1976).

Hayden was the daughter of Pulitzer-Prize-winning author and poet Phyllis McGinley.[1]

Hayden died of cancer September 14, 1981. She was 42. The September 14th issue of the New Yorker contained her last piece, a profile on the gardens at St. Luke in the Fields Episcopal Church, where her memorial was held.[2][5]

References

  1. 1 2 Walsh, S. Kirk (22 August 2012). "Brief Lives: The Short Stories Of Julie Hayden". Los Angeles Review of Books. Archived from the original on 18 July 2013.
  2. 1 2 http://www.wnyc.org/story/lorrie-moore-reads-julie-hayden/, The New Yorker Fiction Podcast, accessed February 21, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Harvard Alumni Profile Search". community.alumni.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-22.
  4. ↑ "Julie Hayden - The Los Angeles Review of Books". The Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2016-03-22.
  5. ↑ "Julia Elizabeth Hayden, Writer On Staff of The New Yorker". The New York Times. 1981-09-15. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-03-22.

S. Kirk Walsh interviews Cheryl Strayed: New Life for the Fiction of Julie Hayden.


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