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A Pulitzer prize-finalist peels back the curtain on an unexplored part of Julia Child's life - the formidable team of six she collaborated with to shape her legendary career.Julia Child's monumental Mastering the Art of French Cooking and iconic television show The French Chef required a team of innovators to bring out her unique presence and personality. Warming Up Julia Child is behind-the-scenes look at this supporting team, revealing how the savvy of these helpers, collaborators, and supporters contributed to Julia's overwhelming success. Julia is the central subject, but Helen Horowitz has her share the stage with those who aided her work. She reveals that the most important element in Julia Child's ultimate success was her unusual capacity for forming fruitful alliances, whether it was Paul Child, Simone Beck, Avis DeVoto, Judith Jones and William Koshland (at Knopf) , and Ruth Lockwood (at WGBH) .
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I enjoy working in a number of fields that connect my interest in the past and present of the U.S. with women's studies, landscape, architecture, education, biography, sexual representation, law, medicine, and most recently tourism and food history. I began at Wellesley where I got my B.A. and continued at Harvard, where I earned an American Studies Ph.D. I've taught at MIT, Union College, Scripps College, the University of Southern California, and, most importantly, Smith College. I love to write and learn about new subjects. My newest book is "A Taste for Provence." Visit the book's Facebook page for more information.
