TY  - BOOK
AU  - Franklin,Sara B.
TI  - The editor: how publishing legend Judith Jones shaped culture in America 
SN  - 9781982134341
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Atria Books
KW  - Jones, Judith,
KW  - Book editors
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women editors
KW  - Publishers and publishing
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - American literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-289) and index
N2  - "An intimate biography of 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"--; "When twenty-five-year-old Judith Jones began working as a secretary at Doubleday's newly opened Paris office in 1949, she was tasked with wading through manuscripts in the slush pile until one caught her eye. She read the book 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. Over more than half a century as an editor at Knopf, Jones became a legend, nurturing future literary icons such as Sylvia Plath, Anne Tyler, and John Updike. 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. Jones celebrated the art and pleasures of cooking and culinary diversity, forever changing the way Americans think about food. Her work spanned the 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, Jones's work questioned convention, using books as a tool of quiet resistance. Now, her astonishing career is explored for the first time"--
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