Books About Julia Child to Read While You Watch ‘Julia’

Julia Child, by the standards of her time, never should have left the kind of mark she did in front of the camera. She was everything television producers didn’t want: tall, middle-aged, and, of course, a woman. But she was also different, and America liked that.

Bob Spitz recounts Julia’s unprecedented but well-deserved road to fame in Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child, painting her “differences” as assets that eventually led to a career no one would ever forget.