Claim: Avis DeVoto (born May 22, 1904) attended Northwestern University before moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts and she guiding Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and Elizabeth David's Italian Food to publication.
Evidence: She attended Northwestern University and at the end of her freshman year in 1923, she married American historian Bernard DeVoto, who had been her English instructor. The DeVotos remained in Evanston for four years and then moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Bernard taught English at Harvard University until 1936. She was highly influential in editing and guiding two famous cookbooks to publication: Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and the US edition of the British food writer Elizabeth David's Italian Food.