Julia Child (August 15, 1912 - August 13, 2004) was an American chef, author, and television personality. She introduced French cuisine and cooking techniques to the American mainstream through her cookbooks, beginning in 1961 with Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her television programs, notably The French Chef which premiered in 1963.

Childhood and education

Child was born Julia Carolyn McWilliams in Pasadena, California, a daughter of John McWilliams, Jr., a Princeton graduate and prominent land manager, and his wife, the former Julia Carolyn ("Caro") Weston, a paper-company heiress whose father, Byron Weston, served as lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. The eldest The Biography of Julia Child, Noel Riley Fitch, pg. 169, paragraph 2..."Dorothy (at six feet four)" of three children, she had a brother, John III (1914–2002), and a sister, Dorothy Dean (1917–2006).www.newsmodo.com/display.jsp?id=509084