{"product_id":"sale-the-editor-how-publishing-legend-judith-jones-shaped-culture-in-america-sara-b-franklin","title":"*Sale* The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America (Sara B. Franklin)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLegendary 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 intimate biography.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen twenty-five-year-old Judith Jones began working as a secretary at Doubleday’s newly opened Paris office in 1949, she was tasked with wading through manuscripts in the slush pile until one caught her eye. She read the book in one sitting, then begged her boss to consider publishing it. A year later, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAnne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebecame a bestseller. It was the start of a culture defining career in publishing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver more than half a century as an editor at Knopf, Jones became a legend, nurturing future literary icons such as Sylvia Plath, Anne Tyler, and John Updike. At the forefront of the cookbook revolution, she published the who’s who of food writing: Edna Lewis, M.F.K. Fisher, Claudia Roden, Madhur Jaffrey, James Beard, and, most famously, Julia Child. Jones celebrated the art and pleasures of cooking and culinary diversity, forever changing the way Americans think about food.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer work spanned the decades of America’s most dramatic cultural change. From the end of World War II through the Cold War; from the civil rights movement to the fight for women’s equality, Jones’s work questioned convention, using books as a tool of quiet resistance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48424493842690,"sku":null,"price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/0463\/6790\/files\/71cPu-QZirL._SL1500.jpg?v=1704926557","url":"https:\/\/omnivorebooks.myshopify.com\/products\/sale-the-editor-how-publishing-legend-judith-jones-shaped-culture-in-america-sara-b-franklin","provider":"Omnivore Books on Food","version":"1.0","type":"link"}