This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. This week, Lily Meyer offered readers a beautiful ode to Judith Jones, the ...

To properly honor the legacy of Judith Jones – not only one of the most prominent women in American publishing history, but also one of the metaphorical head chefs of culinary literature – nothing ...

‘The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America’ By Sara B. Franklin Atria Books, 316 pages. Judith Jones spent more than 50 years at Alfred A. Knopf, working her way up from ...

The finale episode, titled “Chocolate Soufflé,” revealed the powerful co-founder and leader of publishing house Knopf is going blind, and only her mentee Judith Jones (Fiona Glascott), who ...

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 ...

Her publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, was too cheap to pay for a recipe tester, according to her biographer Sara B. Franklin in her new book The Editor, so Jones performed this duty as well, sitting in ...

The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America. By Sara Franklin. Atria Books; 336 pages; $29.99 and £20 Judith Jones edited literary and culinary greats and saved Anne ...

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 ...

Judith Jones—a legendary New York editor and the subject of a forthcoming biography by Sara B. Franklin titled simply “The Editor”—discovered Julia Child and refined, or at least ...

On Monday, Publishers Weekly cooked up a stir with an article in which Julia Child’s famed editor, Judith Jones, recounted what Child said of Julie ...

The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America Sara B. Franklin. Atria, $30 (320) ISBN 978-1-982-13434-1 ...

HBO Max picked up "Julia" for Season 2, meaning fans will find out more about these real characters, including Judith Light's Blanche Knopf. Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV ...