Alex Prud’homme (born 1961) is an American journalist and the author of several non-fiction books.
Early life and education
Prud'homme is a native of New York City, a 1984 graduate of
Middlebury College
Middlebury College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont, United States. Founded in 1800 by Congregationalism in the United States, Congregationalists, Middlebury w ...
, and attended the
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
The Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is an author's conference held every summer at the Bread Loaf Inn, near Bread Loaf Mountain, east of Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1926, it has been called by ''The New Yorker'' "the oldest and most ...
.
Writings
Prud'homme's journalism has appeared in many publications, including ''
The New York Times
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'', ''
The New Yorker
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'', ''
Vanity Fair'', ''
Talk
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'', ''
Time
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'', and ''
People
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''.
Prud'homme collaborated with his great-aunt
Julia Child
Julia Carolyn Child (Birth name#Maiden and married names, née McWilliams; August 15, 1912 – August 13, 2004) was an American chef, author, and television personality. She is recognized for having brought French cuisine to the American pu ...
on the book ''
My Life in France
''My Life in France'' is an autobiography by Julia Child, published in 2006 in literature, 2006. It was compiled by Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme, her husband's grandnephew, during the last eight months of her life, and completed by Prud'homme ...
'' (Alfred A. Knopf, 2006), her memoir of discovering food and life in postwar Paris and Marseille. The book became a number one ''New York Times'' best-seller, and inspired half of the 2009 movie ''
Julie & Julia
''Julie & Julia'' is a 2009 American biographical comedy drama film written and directed by Nora Ephron starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams in the title roles with Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina, and Linda Emond in supporting roles. The film ...
'', starring
Meryl Streep
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as Julia Child. In 2007, the book won the Literary Food Writing award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP).
Prud'homme previously wrote, with co-author
Michael Cherkasky, ''Forewarned'' (Random House, 2003), about terrorism. He followed that with ''The Cell Game'' (HarperCollins, 2004), about the
ImClone scandal; ''The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century'' (Scribner, 2011); and ''Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know'' (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Returning to Julia Child a decade after her memoir, Prud'homme wrote ''The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act'' (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016). The paperback is now available (Anchor Books, 2017).
With photo curator Katie Pratt, he published ''France is a Feast: the Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child,'' a selection of Paul Child's photographs from 1948 to 1954 (Thames & Hudson, 2017).
In 2023, he published ''Dinner With The President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House.''
See also
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American male journalists
Living people
Middlebury College alumni
20th-century American journalists
American food writers
1961 births