Avis DeVoto and Julia Child at Charnel House Court, Rouen, France, May 1956.

(PAUL CHILD).

Julia and James Beard in the back garden of Beard's house at 119 West Tenth Street, Greenwich Village, May 21, 1964. Julia periodically flew down from Boston to teach in his cooking school.

(PAUL CHILD).

Ruth Lockwood, her second WGBH producer, ties Julia's ap.r.o.n before the taping of The French Chef The French Chef, which ran in black and white from 1963 to 1966, in color from 1970 to 1973.

(PAUL CHILD).

The French Chef in front of the camera at WGBH for a filming, "Sweetbreads and Brains," show #123, December 9, 1965. She wears the insignia designed by Paul for L'Ecole des Trois Gourmandes.

(PAUL CHILD).

"YOU MAY BE AN ESCARGOT TO JULIA CHILD. BUT YOU'RE JUST A SNAIL TO ME!"

The old house at Bramafam in Provence. Julia is working at Simca's outdoor table about 1960, before her own house was built beyond the trees behind her.

Julia's kitchen in the Childs' Cambridge home, 1969. The table was bought in Oslo, the mortar and pestle on the left in Paris, the six-burner Garland gas range on the right in Washington, DC. The house was built for the eminent philosopher Josiah Royce in 1889, the counters raised when the Childs moved in in 1961. Her last two PBS series were filmed in this kitchen.

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Founders of the American Inst.i.tute of Wine and Food: Richard Graff (Chalone Vineyard), Julia, Robert Huttenback (chancellor of the University of California at Santa Barbara), and Robert Mondavi, March 17, 1984, at a lunch honoring Graff at the Mondavi vineyard in the Napa Valley.

Judith Jones, her editor at Knopf beginning in 1960, and Julia, at work on Cooking with Master Chefs Cooking with Master Chefs, 1993.

(BARRY MICHLIN PHOTOGRAPHER).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

NOeL RILEY FITCH is an internationally recognized biographer. Her critically acclaimed is an internationally recognized biographer. Her critically acclaimed Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties (1983), now in its eleventh printing, and (1983), now in its eleventh printing, and Anais: The Erotic Life of Anais Nin Anais: The Erotic Life of Anais Nin (1993) have been translated into French, German, j.a.panese, Spanish, and Portuguese. She has also auth.o.r.ed books on Hemingway and on the literary cafes of Paris, as well as scholarly articles on the French-American connection. Fitch earned a Ph.D. in literature and is a lecturer at the American University of Paris and the University of Southern California. (1993) have been translated into French, German, j.a.panese, Spanish, and Portuguese. She has also auth.o.r.ed books on Hemingway and on the literary cafes of Paris, as well as scholarly articles on the French-American connection. Fitch earned a Ph.D. in literature and is a lecturer at the American University of Paris and the University of Southern California.