Smith Misses

Commencement
By J. Courtney Sullivan
Knopf, 320 pages, $24.95

One of the characters in J. Courtney Sullivan’s debut novel Commencement thinks of her first year out of college (a.k.a. the real world) as her freshman year of life. It’s one of those funny-’cause-it’s-truisms that most of us can relate to: It’s awfully hard to Read More

Smith Smartie Gets Man, Writes How-To Manual

Publishing’s newest relationship expert, J. Courtney Sullivan, was born on Aug. 10, 1981. The “J.” is for Julie. She is, according to her great-aunt, a distant cousin on her father’s side to Helen Gurley Brown.

Ms. Sullivan is the author of Dating Up: Dump the Schlump and Find a Quality Man, which Warner Books will Read More