Betty Fussell | |
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Born | Betty Ellen Harper July 28, 1927 Riverside, California, U.S. |
Pen name | Betty Fussell |
Occupation | Writer, author, educator, historian |
Language | English |
Alma mater | Pomona College (B.A.), Radcliffe College (M.A.), Rutgers University (Ph.D.) |
Genre | Biographies, Cookbooks, Food History, Memoirs |
Years active | 1952–present |
Notable works | The New York Times, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Saveur, Vogue, Food & Wine, Metropolitan Home, Gastronomica,"The Story of Corn", "I Hear America Cooking", My Kitchen Wars, Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef, "Mabel: Hollywood's First I-Don't-Care Girl" |
Notable awards | See Awards |
Spouse | |
Children | 2 |
Website | |
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Betty Ellen Fussell (née Harper; born July 28, 1927) is an American writer[1] and is the author of 12 books, ranging from biography to cookbooks, food history and memoir.[2][3] Over the last 50 years, her essays on food, travel and the arts have appeared in scholarly journals, popular magazines and newspapers as varied as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Saveur, Vogue, Food & Wine, Metropolitan Home and Gastronomica. Her memoir, My Kitchen Wars, was performed in Hollywood and New York as a one-woman show by actress Dorothy Lyman. Her most recent book is Eat Live Love Die,[4] and she is now working on How to Cook a Coyote: A Manual of Survival.