Julie Yip-Williams
American lawyer and writer
Julie Yip-Williams was an American lawyer and writer born in Vietnam. She wrote about living with colon cancer, and her memoir is The Unwinding of the Miracle.
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Born 1976 in Tam Kỳ, Vietnam Died 2018
About Julie Yip-Williams
Julie Yip-Williams (1976 to 2018) was born Diep Ly Thanh in Tam-Ky, Vietnam. Her family moved to the United States when she was young, and she grew up in Monterey Park, California. She studied at Williams College and Harvard Law School, then worked as a lawyer in New York City. After a colon cancer diagnosis, she began writing a blog about her illness and the rest of her life, and it drew a large following. The Unwinding of the Miracle is her memoir. She died in March 2018 at the age of forty-two. Her home was in Brooklyn, where she shared life with Josh, her husband, and their daughters, Mia and Isabelle.