The editor : how publishing legend Judith Jones shaped culture in America

Franklin, Sara B.2025

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At Doubleday's Paris office in 1949, twenty-five-year-old Judith Jones came across a book that 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 more than fifty years as an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, Jones nurtured 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. Through her 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 civil rights movement and the fight for women's equality -- and the books she published acted as tools of quiet resistance. Now, based on exclusive interviews, never-before-seen personal papers, and years of research, her astonishing career is explored for the first time.