Judith Jones, Julia Childs' Cookbook Editor, at Home

Judith Jones was a senior editor and vice president at Knopf. She died on August 2nd, 2017. (images from 2009)

In 1950 she rescued The Diary of Anne Frank from the rejects pile. In 1960 she championed a cookbook no other publisher would touch, named it Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and became Julia Child's editor from then on. She ushered all of John Updike's books into print, including the posthumous ones, and edited many other important works both culinary and literary....
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Judith Jones was a senior editor and vice president at Knopf. She died on August 2nd, 2017. (images from 2009)

In 1950 she rescued The Diary of Anne Frank from the rejects pile. In 1960 she championed a cookbook no other publisher would touch, named it Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and became Julia Child's editor from then on. She ushered all of John Updike's books into print, including the posthumous ones, and edited many other important works both culinary and literary. Jones wrote a number of cookbooks herself, as well as a cookbook/memoir, The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food.

Raised in New England, she lived in New York City and summered in Northern Vermont, where she also raised grass-fed cattle on the Bryn Teg farm.
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