Julien Ayotte was born in 1941, the fourth son of Gaston and Idalie (Donneau) Ayotte, in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. He graduated from Mt. St. Charles academy in 1959. In 1963, he received a B.S. degree from the University of Rhode Island, followed by an M.B.A. in 1969, a Harvard Business School Management Development Program in 1978, and a PhD from Columbia Pacific University in 1992.
In his forty year career, Julien served as the Assistant Corporate Treasurer and Assistant Corporate Controller at Textron Inc. for eleven years, following nine years as a high school teacher in Bellingham, Massachusetts. He then served as a financial and investment consultant until becoming the executive director for a prominent Providence law firm, Partridge, Snow & Hahn in 1988-1989, followed by twelve years in a similar position for a much larger prestigious Worcester law firm, Mirick O’Connell, where he ended his career in 2002. During this fourteen year period, Ayotte also was an adjunct professor of finance and investments in the MBA programs at five universities in the Rhode Island and Massachusetts area.
He began to write his debut novel, Flower of Heaven, in 1987, but after completing ten chapters, he put it aside because of other commitments. He started writing again in 2001 and co-authored a financial planning book with Dr. Gerhard Harms, entitled Wealth Building for Professionals. Flower of Heaven was published in 2012, followed by the sequel, Dangerous Bloodlines, in 2014, A Life Before in 2016, and Disappearance in 2017. His fifth novel in six years, Code Name Lily, was released in late 2018.
Julien is an avid golfer and tennis player, and a 2016 inductee in the Mt. St. Charles Athletic Hall of Fame. He resides with his wife of fifty-five years, Pauline, in Cumberland, Rhode Island. They are the parents of three grown children, Barbara, David, and Julie. He plans to write ten novels in ten years, and is well on his way to achieving that goal.