Julie Powell, the author of the book (and film) “Julie & Julia”, is dead. She was 49 years old

He was only 49 years old. she died of cardiac arrest Julie Powell, American writer, author of the best seller Julie & Julia from which, in 2009, a visionary Nora Ephron drew and directed the film of the same name, played by Meryl Streep in the role of Julia Child and by Amy Adams in the part of Julie Powell, in fact.
died on October 26 at her home in Olivebridge, New York. The husband made the announcement.

She became famous for having detailed hers in a blog unhappinesssuffocated by a boring job that, at the age of 30, she had to accept for economic reasons, Powell in 2002 from the suffocating call center in the heart of Manhattan begins to think seriously about cooking. His source of inspiration? An old book of 524 recipes left her by her mother – Mastering the Art of French Cooking – which, within a year, she studies, cooks, re-proposes with an irreverent and self-deprecating language. Perfectly in line with the personality of the author of that same volume, Julia Child, who from a spy for the US secret services during the Nazi threat had passed, with a certain nonchalance, in the kitchen of her, teaching the Americans of the sixties and seventies the secrets of French cuisine.

Two women, Powell-Child, a thousand points in common. And only one wish: living your dream, yes, even in the kitchen because after a day in which nothing, and when I say nothing, I mean nothing, one comes home and knows with certainty that by adding egg yolks, sugar and milk to the chocolate, dough thickens: such a comfort!.