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Jones joined Knopf in 1957 as an assistant to Blanche Knopf and as an editor; as an editor she worked primarily on translations of French writers such as Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. Before that she worked for Doubleday , first in New York City and then in Paris , where she read and recommended The Diary of Anne Frank , pulling it out of ...
- American
- Bennington College
- Writer, editor
- Brearley School
Aug 2, 2017 · Longtime Knopf editor Judith Jones, photographed in 2006, died Wednesday at her home in Vermont, according to the publisher. Judith Jones may not have been a household name, but without...
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Apr 27, 2022 · Take the first episode’s opening scene: Julia Child did not, as the show suggests, receive a single-page letter from Judith Jones in early 1961 saying Knopf would be delighted to publish the hulking cookbook penned by Child and her co-authors, Simone Beck and Louisette Berthole.
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Aug 2, 2017 · Judith Jones, the editor who discovered Julia Child and advanced a generation of culinary writers that revolutionized cooking and tastes in American homes, and who for a half-century edited...
May 22, 2019 · May 22, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. EDT. LEFT: The original cover for “In Pursuit of Flavor” (Knopf); RIGHT: “Biscuits, Spoonbread, and Sweet Potato Pie” (Knopf) Judith Jones, the legendary Knopf...
Aug 2, 2017 · 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...
Aug 2, 2017 · Judith Jones, a towering icon of book publishing, died yesterday at the age of 93. New York Times reporter Kim Severson broke the news on Twitter; the Washington Post reports that the cause was...
