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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Mark Kennedy | AP Entertainment Writer

Julie Powell, ‘Julie & Julia’ writer, dies at 49

Author Julie Powell attends the premiere of “Julie & Julia” in New York, in 2009. Powell died last week at the age of 49. (AP)

NEW YORK — Food writer Julie Powell, who became an internet darling after blogging for a year about making every recipe in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” leading to a book deal and a film adaptation, has died. She was 49.

Powell died of cardiac arrest Oct. 26 at her home in upstate New York, The New York Times reported. Her death was confirmed by Judy Clain, Powell’s email and editor in chief of Little, Brown.

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