Julie Powell
Julie Powell (born April 20, 1973 in Austin , Texas ) is an American author. She became known through her book Julie & Julia: 365 days, 524 recipes and 1 tiny kitchen .
Life
Born and raised in Austin, Texas , she attended Amherst College , where she graduated in 1995 with majors in theater and creative writing . Julie Powell now lives with her husband Eric in the New York borough of Queens .
Career
While working as a temporary worker for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation in August 2002 , Powell started the Julie / Julia Project , a blog describing her attempt to cook all of the recipes from Julia Childs Mastering the Art of French Cooking in one year . The blog quickly gained a huge following, and Powell signed a book deal with Little, Brown and Company . The blog is no longer online. The resulting book, Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes and 1 Tiny Kitchen , was published in 2005. It won the 2006 Lulu Blooker Prize for best work based on a weblog or website .
The film adaptation of the book, based on a screenplay by Nora Ephron , is also based on Julia Child's autobiography My Life in France and was released in theaters in August 2009 under the title Julie & Julia . Julie Powell is played by Amy Adams .
Powell's second book, Cleaving: a Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession , in which she details an affair she was having while she was publishing her first book and which is not mentioned in the film, was published in English in December 2009.
Fonts
- Julie & Julia: 365 days, 524 recipes and 1 tiny kitchen . About Andrea Ott . Munich: Goldmann 2009. ISBN 978-3-442-47133-1
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Cleaving/Julie-Powell/e/9780316003360
- ↑ Author bio ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Hachette
- ↑ Blythe Camenson, Careers in Writing , McGraw-Hill Professional, 2007, ISBN 0-07-148212-1 , p. 170
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1135503/
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/movies/02barn.html
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Sins of the flesh
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Powell, Julie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Austin , Texas |