Julie Anne Peters

Julie Anne Peters (1952 to 2023) was an American author of young adult fiction, writing twenty works, mostly novels, for children and adolescents, many with LGBT characters. Her 2004 novel Luna was the first young-adult book with a transgender character released by a mainstream publisher. Among her other titles are By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead, about a bullied teenager weighing suicide who forms an unlikely friendship, and Keeping You a Secret, a contemporary coming-of-age romance.