Julie Anne Powell was an American blogger and writer. She was born on April 20, 1973, in Austen, Texas. She studied theater and creative writing at Amherst College, graduating in 1995 She is best known for her blog, Julie/Julia Project, in which she wrote about cooking one recipes a day for a year from the classic cookbook by Julia Child, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. A book was published in 2005 entitled, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen. It was later adapted into a film, Julie & Julia, directed by Nora Ephron (2009). Her second book was Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession. In 2022, she wrote commentaries for Salon about the Food Network reality television show, The Julia Child Challenge. Her awards included a Quill Award for Debut author of the year 2006 for, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen; and 2 James Beard Awards for Magazine Feature with recipes in 2004, for the article, People and Places: Julia Knows Best, and in 2005, for the article, The Trouble with Blood: A Modern Chef Takes on the Challenge of Ancient Cooking. Julie Powell died on October 26, 2022, at home from cardiac arrest. She was 49.
