Julia Reed, wowOwow.com’s Blog

Julia Reed grew up in the Mississippi Delta but went off to the Madeira School just outside of Washington, D.C., at 16. As part of the school’s “Wednesday Job” program, she got a job as an intern in Newsweek’s Washington bureau, and stayed -- answering the phones, clipping newspapers, and eventually writing stories -- for six more years while also attending college at Georgetown University and American University. Her first big break -- and byline -- at the magazine came when her former headmistress, Jean Harris, shot and killed her lover, Herman Tarnower, the Scarsdale Diet doctor. Today, Julia is again at Newsweek, where she writes dispatches on New Orleans politics as well as the magazine’s new monthly “Food and Drink” column. Read More.