Julia Reed (1960-2020) was a contributing editor at Garden & Gun, where she wrote the magazine's The High & the Low column. Her books include But Mama Always Put Vodka in Her Sangria!; Ham Biscuits, Hostess Gowns, and Other Southern Specialties; and Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena. Reed divided her time between New Orleans and Greenville, Mississippi.
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Dispatches from the Gilded Age is a collection of essays by Julia Reed, one of America’s greatest chroniclers. In the middle of the night on March eleventh, 1980, the phone rang in Julia Reed’s Georgetown dorm. It was her boss at Newsweek, where sh... SEE MORE