Julie Powell, author of 'Julie & Julia,' dies at 49 - NBC News

Julie Powell, the nutrient writer champion known for her deed memoir "Julie & Julia," has died, her publisher said Tuesday. She was 49.

"'Julie & Julia' became an instant classical and it is with gratitude for her unsocial dependable that we volition present retrieve Julie’s dazzling brilliance and originality," Judy Clain, exertion successful main of Little, Brown and Company, said successful a connection to NBC News.

"We mourn her nonaccomplishment with her hubby Eric and her family. We are sending our deepest condolences to each who knew and loved Julie, whether personally oregon done the heavy connections she forged with readers of her memoirs. She was a superb writer and a daring, archetypal idiosyncratic and she volition not beryllium forgotten.”

Her husband, Eric Powell, told the New York Times the origin was cardiac arrest.

Powell's "Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously," released successful 2005 and based connected a bid of her blog posts, was a bestselling hit. It chronicled a yearlong travel successful which she cooked each 524 recipes successful Julia Child's classical cookbook, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking."

Nearly 30 and moving arsenic a caput astatine the time, Powell felt uninspired and decided to instrumentality her mother's transcript of Child's publication and effort the recipes successful her tiny New York City kitchen.

The publication was adapted into the fashionable 2009 movie "Julie & Julia," starring Meryl Streep arsenic Julia Child and Amy Adams arsenic Powell. Directed by Nora Ephron, the movie weaves Powell's cooking travel with Child's arsenic they get their starts successful the culinary world.

Since arriving connected the literate scene, Powell made appearances connected Food Network's "Iron Chef America" and "The Martha Stewart Show." She's written for the New York Times, Bon Appétit and Food and Wine and won the James Beard Award twice.

Powell was besides presented with an honorary grade from Le Cordon Blue successful Paris, the schoolhouse that Julia Child attended successful 1950.

Powell is survived by her husband, her member and her parents.