Julia Lieblich

Julia Lieblich (April 25, 1958 – November 2023) was an American journalist and author specializing in human rights and religion.

Education Lieblich graduated from Harvard Divinity School with a master’s degree in theological studies in 1992. She was a research fellow at Northwestern Law School’s Center for International Human Rights.

Career In 1983, she wrote an article for The New York Times Magazine about nuns which later became her book, Sisters: Lives of Devotion and Defiance, published in 1992.

Lieblich taught writing and was an assistant professor at Loyola University Chicago. co-authored with Esad Boskailo Wounded I Am More Awake: Finding Meaning After Terror (Vanderbilt University Press, 2012)

Personal life Lieblich died in November 2023 at the age of 65. She lived in Cambridge.