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The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America Hardcover - 2024

by Sara B. Franklin


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"A surprising, granular, luminous, and path-breaking biography." --Edward Hirsch, critic and author of How to Read a Poem

Legendary editor Judith Jones, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century--including Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plath--finally gets her due in this intimate biography.

When twenty-five-year-old Judith Jones began working as a secretary at Doubleday's Paris office in 1949, she spent most of her time wading through manuscripts in the slush pile and passing on projects--until one day, a book caught her eye. She read it in one sitting, then begged her boss to consider publishing it. A year later, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl became a bestseller. It was the start of a culture-defining career in publishing.

During her more than fifty years as an editor at Knopf, Jones nurtured the careers of literary icons such as Sylvia Plath, Anne Tyler, and John Updike, and helped launched new genres and trends in literature. At the forefront of the cookbook revolution, she published the who's who of food writing: Edna Lewis, M.F.K. Fisher, Claudia Roden, Madhur Jaffrey, James Beard, and, most famously, Julia Child. Through her quiet and tenacious work behind the scenes, Jones helped turn these authors into household names, changing cultural mores and expectations along the way.

Judith's work spanned decades of America's most dramatic cultural change--from the end of World War II through the Cold War, from the civil rights movement to the fight for women's equality--and the books she published acted as tools of quiet resistance. Now, her astonishing career is explored for the first time. Based on exclusive interviews, never-before-seen personal papers, and years of research, The Editor tells the riveting behind-the-scenes narrative of how stories are made, finally bringing to light the audacious life of one of our most influential tastemakers.

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  • Title The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
  • Author Sara B. Franklin
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Atria Books
  • Date 2024-05-28
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781982134341 / 1982134348
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.3 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects American literature - 20th century - History, Publishers and publishing - United States -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2023057173
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 03/15/2024, Page 0
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 12/01/2023, Page 12
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/29/2024, Page 0

About the author

Sara B. Franklin is a writer, teacher, and oral historian. She received a 2020-2021 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Public Scholars grant for her research on Judith Jones, and teaches courses on food, writing, embodied culture, and oral history at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is the author of The Editor, the editor of Edna Lewis, and coauthor of The Phoenicia Diner Cookbook. She holds a PhD in Food Studies from NYU and studied documentary storytelling at both the Duke Center for Documentary Studies and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. She lives with her children in Kingston, New York. Find out more at SaraBFranklin.com.
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