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 ...

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 ...

The King Arthur Baking Company Big Book of Bread, Wild Chocolate: Across the Americas in Search of Cacao’s Soul and The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America Credit: ...