Gladys Bourdain, Anthony Bourdain's mom who championed his work, dies at 85

The New York Times

Longtime New York Times copy editor Gladys Bourdain, who once profiled Julia Child for The Times in 1978, helped kick-start her son's writing career and championed it by introducing her son's writing to New Yorker editor in chief David Remnick. Her death comes 19 months after Anthony Bourdain's suicide in June 2018. ALSO: A new book Anthony Bourdain was working on before death will be published this year.