Juli Zeh is a German writer. Her first book was Adler und Engel, which won the 2002 Deutscher B�cherpreis for best debut novel. She traveled through Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2001, which became the basis for the book Die Stille ist ein Ger�usch. Her other books are Das Land der Menschen, Schilf, Alles auf dem Rasen, Kleines Konversationslexikon f�r Haushunde, Spieltrieb, Ein Hund l�uft durch die Republik and Corpus Delicti. Zeh has lived in Leipzig since 1995. Zeh studied law in Passau and Leipzig, passing the Zweites Juristisches Staatsexamen - comparable equivalent to the U.S. bar exam - in 2003. She also has a degree from the Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig. 

June 30th, 1974 in Bonn (Age 50)