The Editor
How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
$31.99
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
14 May 2025
Summary
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—finally gets her due in this “surprising, granular, luminous, and path-breaking biography.”
At Doubleday’s Paris office in 1949, twenty-five-year-old Judith Jones spent most of her time wading through manuscripts in the slush pile and passing on projects—until one day, a book caught her eye. She read it in o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781982134372 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1982134372 |
| Author: | Sara B. Franklin |
| Publisher: | Atria Books |
| Imprint: | Atria Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 14 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 259g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 140mm x 213mm |
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Sara B. Franklin
Sara B. Franklin is a writer, teacher, and oral historian. She received a 2020–2021 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Public Scholars grant for her research on Judith Jones, and teaches courses on food, writing, embodied culture, and oral history at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is the author of The Editor, the editor of Edna Lewis, and coauthor of The Phoenicia Diner Cookbook. She holds a PhD in food studies from NYU and studied documentary storytelling at both the Duke Center for Documentary Studies and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. She lives with her children in Kingston, New York.
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