Betty Harper Fussell is an American food writer. She authored The Story of Corn, an in-depth study of the plant as a crop, religion, and culture. Other books include Crazy for Corn, Food in Good Season, I Hear America Cooking.

She also authored Mabel, a biography of Mabel Normand

Mabel Normand

Mabel Normand was an American silent film comedienne and actress. She was a popular star of Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios and is noted as one of the film industry's first female screenwriters, producers and directors...

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She is the former wife of Paul Fussell

Paul Fussell

Paul Fussell is an American cultural and literary historian, author and university professor. His writings cover a variety of genres, from scholarly works on eighteenth-century English literature to commentary on America’s class system...

, a literary critic and military historian. She described their decades-long marriage and its breakdown in highly disobliging terms in My Kitchen Wars.

External links

• Betty Fussell's web site http://www.bettyfussell.com