Judith Jones was an American writer and editor, initially known for having rescued The Diary of Anne Frank from the reject pile.
17 Facts About Judith Jones
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Judith Jones retired as senior editor and vice president at Alfred A Knopf in 2011 and fully retired in 2013 after more than 60 years at the company.
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Judith Jones won multiple lifetime achievement awards, including the James Beard Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.
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Judith Jones grew up in Manhattan and had a sister, Susan.
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Judith Jones attended the Brearley School and graduated from Bennington College in 1945 with a degree in English.
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Judith Jones worked for Doubleday, first in New York City and then in Paris, where she read and recommended The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank, pulling it out of the rejection pile.
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Judith Jones recalled that she came across Frank's work in a slush pile of material that had been rejected by other publishers; she was struck by a photograph of the girl on the cover of an advance copy of the French edition.
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Judith Jones joined Knopf in 1957 as an assistant to Blanche Knopf and as an editor; as an editor she worked primarily on translations of French writers such as Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Major culinary authors Judith Jones brought into print include Julia Child, Lidia Bastianich, James Beard, Marion Cunningham, Rosie Daley, Edward Giobbi, Marcella Hazan, Madhur Jaffrey, Irene Kuo, Edna Lewis, Joan Nathan, Scott Peacock, Jacques Pepin, Claudia Roden, and Nina Simonds.
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Judith Jones was the longtime editor of noted authors John Updike, Anne Tyler, John Hersey, Elizabeth Bowen, Peter Taylor, and William Maxwell.
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Judith Jones retired as senior editor and vice president at Alfred A Knopf in 2011 and fully retired in 2013 after more than 60 years at the company.
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Judith Jones wrote three books with her husband Evan, and wrote three on her own after his death: one on cooking for one person; a memoir of her life and food; and a cookbook for food that can be shared with dogs.
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Judith Jones contributed to Vogue, Saveur, Bon Appetit, Departures, and Gourmet magazines.
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Judith Jones lived in Paris after college, where she met her husband and collaborator, Richard "Dick" Evan Judith Jones.
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Judith Jones retired from Knopf after a 65-year career in 2013.
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Judith Jones died of complications from Alzheimer's disease at age 93 on August 2,2017, in Walden, Vermont.
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Cookbooks written or edited by Judith Jones that received James Beard Awards:.