Julie Hayden (1939-1981) was an American short story writer and staff member at The New Yorker magazine. In 1966, she joined the staff of The New Yorker and worked there as the newsbreak editor for 15 years, until her death. During this time, she published 10 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. Hayden was the daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and poet Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978) and her husband Charles L. Hayden, a telephone company worker and jazz pianist who died in 1972.
Portrait by Bernice B. Perry
