Judith Jones may not have been a household name, but without her, some of the world's most famous books may never have made it to many library and kitchen shelves. The editor died Wednesday at her ...

Judith Jones spent more than 50 years at Alfred A. Knopf, working her way up from a job as a secretary wading through slush piles of unwanted books to discovering “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young ...

NEW YORK -- Judith Jones, a consummate literary editor who helped revolutionize American cuisine by publishing Julia Child and other groundbreaking cookbook authors, worked for decades with John ...

Sara B. Franklin is the author of the just-published biography, “The Editor,” which explores the life of publishing legend Judith Jones. A writer, teacher and oral historian with a Ph.D. in food ...

The legendary Knopf editor published authors — many women and people of color — whose books translated foreign cuisines for an American audience Judith Jones, the legendary Knopf editor who died in ...

To properly honor the legacy of Judith Jones – not only one of the most prominent women in American publishing history, but also one of the metaphorical head chefs of culinary literature – nothing ...

Read all the stories from Slate’s 25 Most Important American Recipes of the Past 100 Years. It was early the week of Thanksgiving 1959, and the young Knopf editor Judith Jones was trying to tie up ...

Judith Jones, Julia's longtime editor at Alfred Knopf, remembers the French Chef. Julia would have turned 100 in August 2012. Judith Jones is Senior Editor and Vice President at Alfred A. Knopf. She ...

Judith Jones, a consummate literary editor who helped revolutionize American cuisine by publishing Julia Child and other groundbreaking cookbook authors, worked for decades with John Updike and Anne ...