On August 15, 1912, Julia Child was born as Julia Carolyn McWilliams in Pasadena, California. Child's father was John McWilliams Jr. (1880–1962), a Princeton University graduate and prominent land manager. Child's … See more

After her friend Simone Beck died in 1991 at the age of 87, Child relinquished La Pitchoune after a month-long stay in June 1992 with her … See more

Child died of kidney failure in Montecito, California, on August 13, 2004, two days shy of her 92nd birthday. She ended her last book, My Life in France, with "... thinking back on it … See more

On November 19, 2000, Child was presented with a Knight of France's Legion of Honor. She was elected a Fellow of the See more

Second World War
Child joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in 1942 after finding that at six feet, two inches (1.88 m) tall, she was too tall to enlist in the Women's Army Corps (WACs) or in the U.S. Navy's WAVES. … See more

The Julia Child Foundation
In 1995, Child established The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and Culinary Arts, a private charitable foundation to make grants to … See more

Child was a favorite of audiences from the moment of her television debut on public television in 1963, and she was a familiar part of American culture and the subject of numerous … See more