NEW YORK -- 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 ...

Judith Jones may not have been a household name, but without her, some of the world's most famous books may never have made it to many library and kitchen shelves. The editor died Wednesday at her ...

Judith Jones spent more than 50 years at Alfred A. Knopf, working her way up from a job as a secretary wading through slush piles of unwanted books to discovering “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young ...

Read all the stories from Slate’s 25 Most Important American Recipes of the Past 100 Years. It was early the week of Thanksgiving 1959, and the young Knopf editor Judith Jones was trying to tie up ...

To properly honor the legacy of Judith Jones – not only one of the most prominent women in American publishing history, but also one of the metaphorical head chefs of culinary literature – nothing ...

For almost 50 years, editor Judith Jones has introduced Americans to numerous culinary talents, including Julia Child, Marcella Hazan and Claudia... Judith Jones Toasts a Culinary Life in 'Tenth Muse' ...

On a dreary afternoon in 1949, Judith Jones perched at her typewriter in Doubleday’s Paris office. As she composed rejection letters for unsolicited manuscripts, a slim volume buried in the slush pile ...

Aimee Levitt is a freelance writer in Chicago. Once upon a time, sometime in the late 1940s, a young American named Judith Bailey decided to take a road trip from Paris to Provence with a group of ...