|
Judith B. Jones (born 1924) retired as senior editor and vice president at Knopf in 2011. In 1950 she rescued ''The Diary of Anne Frank'' from the reject 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.〔(''Raising Steaks'' ), Christine Muhlke, ''NY Times'' September 24, 2009〕 She ushered all of John Updike's books into print, including the posthumous titles, and edited many other important works both culinary and literary. Jones has written a number of cookbooks herself, as well as a cookbook/memoir, ''The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food''. Raised in New England, she lives in New York City and summers in Northern Vermont, where she also raises grass-fed cattle on the Bryn Teg farm. Her husband and collaborator Evan Jones died in 1996. The couple had no children. ==Editor== Jones joined Knopf in 1957 as an assistant to Blanche Knopf〔 and editor working mainly on translations of French writers such as Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. Before that she worked for Doubleday, first in New York and then in Paris, where she read and recommended ''The Diary of Anne Frank'', pulling it out of the rejection pile.〔(Barnes and Noble biography of Judith Jones )〕 Major culinary authors Jones has brought into print include Lidia Bastianich, James Beard, Julia Child, Marion Cunningham, Rosie Daley, Edward Giobbi, Marcella Hazan, Madhur Jaffrey, Edna Lewis, Joan Nathan, Scott Peacock, Jacques Pépin, Claudia Roden, and Nina Simonds. The 18-book Knopf Cooks American series was Jones' creation.〔(Star Chef's bio of Judith Jones )〕 She is also the longtime editor of John Updike, Anne Tyler, John Hersey, Elizabeth Bowen, Peter Taylor and William Maxwell.〔("An Editing Life, a Book of Her Own" ), Julia Moskin, ''NY Times'', October 24, 2007〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Judith Jones」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|