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Date of Birth
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10-March-1924
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Place of Birth
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Vermont
(United States of America, United States, with Territories, New England, Contiguous United States)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Judith B. Jones, Judith Bailey Jones
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Profession
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Author, Editor, Book editor
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Judith B. Jones is a senior editor and vice president at Knopf. In 1950 she rescued The Diary of Anne Frank from the rejects 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. 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.
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