Anne Byrn

Anne Byrn is an American cookbook author and the former food editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Tennessean.^[3]

Anne Byrn
Byrn at the 2024 Texas Book Festival.
Born	Nashville, Tennessee[1][2]
Education	University of Georgia[3]
Culinary career
Cooking style	Southern cuisine
Website	AnneByrn.com

Biography

Byrn is a fifth-generation Tennessean.^[4] She graduated from Harpeth Hall School in Nashville in 1974 and the University of Georgia with a degree in journalism in 1978, and is a member of Alpha Omicron Pi Women's Fraternity at Georgia. She spent 15 years as the food editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Later, she studied cooking at La Varenne Ecole de Cuisine in Paris.^[5] Byrn also received instruction from Julia Child, Marcella Hazan and other chefs.^[3]

By 2013, Byrn had sold over 3.5 million copies of her cookbooks.^[6][7]

Selected works

• The Cake Mix Doctor. Workman, 1999, ISBN 978-0761117193
• The Dinner Doctor. Workman, 2003, ISBN 978-0761126805
• Cupcakes!: From the Cake Mix Doctor. Workman, 2005, ISBN 978-0761138198
• What Can I Bring? Cookbook (Cake Mix Doctor). Workman, 2007, ISBN 978-0761143925
• The Cake Mix Doctor Returns!: With 160 All-New Recipes. Workman, 2009, ISBN 978-0761129615
• The Cake Mix Doctor Bakes Gluten-Free. Workman, 2010, ISBN 978-0761160984
• Anne Byrn Saves the Day! Cookbook: 125 Guaranteed-to-Please, Go-To Recipes to Rescue Any Occasion. Workman, 2014, ISBN 978-0761176107^[8]