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Juli Weiner is an American writer known for her work on the
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show ''
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.''


Biography

Weiner is a native of
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. Her father is a breast surgeon. She graduated from Upper Dublin High School and from
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in 2010. In college, she interned for ''
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'' and blogged for ''
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''. She also wrote for ''
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'' and ''
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''. She was also the editor of '' Bwog'' and '' The Blue and White'', both student-run publications at Columbia. She joined ''Vanity Fair'' in February 2010 while an undergraduate at Barnard. Donald Trump called her a "bad writer" after she wrote an online piece critical of him in 2011. Weiner joined the staff of ''
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'' as one of only two women in the writing staff. She won five Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series as a member of the writing staff from 2016 to 2020 and was nominated for another Emmy Award in 2015. She is a four-time winner of the Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy-Variety Talk Series. In 2015, she was named one of the ''
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''. She is a writer for the
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series ''The Franchise'' and ''The Regime''.


Personal life

Weiner married ''
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'' reporter Michael Grynbaum in 2019 at the
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, and has contributed pieces to ''The New York Times''.


See also

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