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Julie Powell, food writer and blogger behind Julie & Julia, dies aged 49

Julie Powell, who has died at the age of 49, at a screening of Julie & Julia in Los Angeles in 2009
Julie Powell, who has died at the age of 49, at a screening of Julie & Julia in Los Angeles in 2009. Photograph: Picture Perfect/Rex/Shutterstock

Julie Powell, the food blogger best known for her cooking memoir, Julie & Julia, which inspired a film starring Meryl Streep, has died at the age of 49.

Her husband, Eric Powell, confirmed to the New York Times that she died of cardiac arrest caused by heart arrhythmia at their home in Olivebridge in upstate New York on 26 October.

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