Julie Powell

(Newser) - Julie Powell, whose Julia Child-inspired cooking quest was first a blog, then a book, then the movie Julie & Julia , died Oct. 26 at her upstate New York home. She was 49. Her husband tells the New York Times Powell's cause of death was cardiac arrest. She had recently...

(Newser) - Difficult as it may be to imagine, blogger-turned-author Julie Powell—played by the adorable Amy Adams in the recent Julie and Julia—has become the new poster child for S&M, thanks to her latest book. "For your average reader of Julie and Julia,” Cleaving—which follows her...