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Alex Prud’homme has been a journalist and author for twenty-five years. He has written on a wide range of subjects for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Time, among other publications. He has authored five books, most notably
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Alex Prud’homme has been a journalist and author for twenty-five years. He has written on a wide range of subjects for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Time, among other publications. He has authored five books, most notably as co-writer of Julia Child’s memoir, My Life in France, which was a #1 New York Times best-seller and inspired half the film Julie & Julia. His book The Ripple Effect: the Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century, was published in 2011, and inspired Participant Media’s 2012 documentary film Last Call at the Oasis. His latest work, Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know, was published by Oxford University Press in November 2013.
Currently, Prud’homme is at work on a book about Julia Child in the 1970s, with the working title The French Chef in America, to be published by Knopf in the spring of 2016. He is also producing a book of Paul Child’s photographs, to be published by Thames & Hudson in the Fall of 2016.
Alex Prud’homme lives with his family in Brooklyn, NY.
