Alex Prud’homme (born 1961) is an American journalist and the author of several non-fiction books.
Alex Prud'homme | |
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 Alex Prud'homme at the 2011 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | 1961 (age 62–63) New York City |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Middlebury College (B.A., History, 1984) |
| Occupation(s) | author and journalist |
| Relatives | Julia Child (great aunt) Paul Cushing Child (great uncle) |
Early life and education edit
Prud'homme is a native of New York City, a 1984 graduate of Middlebury College, and attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.[1]
Writings edit
Prud'homme's journalism has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Talk, Time, and People.[2]
Prud'homme collaborated with his great aunt Julia Child on the book My Life in France (Alfred A. Knopf, 2006), her memoir of discovering food and life in postwar Paris and Marseille.[3] The book became a number one New York Times best-seller, and inspired half of the 2009 movie Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child. In 2007, the book won the Literary Food Writing award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP).[4]
Prud'homme previously wrote, with co-author Michael Cherkasky, Forewarned (Random House, 2003), about terrorism.[5] He followed that with The Cell Game (HarperCollins, 2004),[6] about the ImClone scandal; The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century (Scribner, 2011);[7] and Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2014).[8]
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).[9] The paperback is now available (Anchor Books, 2017).[10]
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).[11]
| External videos | |
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 Q&A interview with Prud'homme on Dinner With the President, February 19, 2023, C-SPAN |
In 2023, he published Dinner With The President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House.[12]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ TEDx Middlebury Speakers
- ^ Alex Prud'homme site
- ^ "Bookpage - About My Life in France". Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. Retrieved 2008-01-30.
- ^ "2007 IACP Cookbook Awards".
- ^ Random House - Forewarned
- ^ "Harper Collins - The Cell Game". Archived from the original on 2010-01-16. Retrieved 2008-01-30.
- ^ The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century, IndieBound. ISBN 978-1-4165-3545-4
- ^ Alex., Prud'homme (2014). Hydrofracking. Oxford. ISBN 9780199311255. OCLC 854285755.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Alex, Prud'homme (2016). The French chef in America : Julia Child's second act (First ed.). New York. ISBN 9780385351751. OCLC 913844748.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Alex, Prud'homme (2016). The French chef in America : Julia Child's second act (First ed.). New York. ISBN 9780804168793. OCLC 913844748.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Katherine., Pratt (2016). France is a feast : paul and julia child's photographic journey. [Place of publication not identified]: W W Norton. ISBN 9780500519073. OCLC 940361862.
- ^ "Dinner with the President by Alex Prud'homme: 9781524732219 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2022-12-12.