GREENVILLE, Miss. -- Julia Reed, who wrote about food and culture in the South and promoted her native Mississippi Delta, has died. She was 59.
The editors of Garden & Gun magazine said in a post on the magazine’s website that Reed died Friday of cancer.
She was a contributing editor to the magazine, which chronicles life and culture in the South.
Reed grew up in Greenville, Mississippi, before embarking on a writing career that took her to Washington, D.C. and New York.
In a tribute on the magazine’s website,historian Jon Meacham described her as a “tsunami of talent, charm, and energy.”
