Julian Guthrie is a journalist with the San Francisco Chronicle. Her writing has been nominated multiple times for the Pulitzer Prize. Her nonfiction book, The Grace of Everyday Saints: How a Band of Believers Lost Their Church and Found Their Faith, was released by Houghton Mifflin on Aug. 18 2011. Her new book The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, The America's Cup, is due out June 4 by Grove/Atlantic.