| Julie Powell | |
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| Born | 20 April 1973 Austin, Texas, United States |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 2002-present |
| Genres | Memoir, Adult-nonfiction |
| Notable work(s) | Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen |
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Julie Powell (born April 20, 1973) is an American author best known for her book Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, and a subsequent movie.
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Powell was born and raised in Austin, Texas. She attended Amherst College, graduating in 1995 with a double major in theater and creative writing.[1] She later married Eric Powell, an editor of Archeology magazine.
While working for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation in August 2002, Powell began the Julie/Julia Project, a blog chronicling her attempt to cook all the recipes in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking.[2] The blog quickly gained a large following, and Powell signed a book deal with Little, Brown and Company. The resulting book, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, was published in 2005.[3] The paperback edition was retitled Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously.
Child was reported to have been unimpressed with Powell's blog, believing her determination to cook every recipe in Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year to be a stunt. Child's editor, Judith Jones, said in an interview:
Flinging around four-letter words when cooking isn't attractive, to me or Julia. She didn't want to endorse it. What came through on the blog was somebody who was doing it almost for the sake of a stunt. She would never really describe the end results, how delicious it was, and what she learned. Julia didn’t like what she called 'the flimsies.' She didn't suffer fools, if you know what I mean.[4]
Powell's second book, Cleaving: a Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession, which details the effects on her marriage of an affair she had after the first book's publication, as well as her experiences learning the butcher trade, was published November 30, 2009.[5][6]
A film adaptation, also based on Julia Child's autobiography My Life in France, directed by Nora Ephron, and titled Julie & Julia, was released August 7, 2009. Amy Adams stars as Powell and Meryl Streep as Julia Child.