SF Chronicle Lauds Jones '45 as "God Among Editors"
San Francisco Chronicle food and wine editor Michael Bauer dedicated a to author and longtime editor Judith Jones '45, whose latest memoir, , has received favorable reviews from and elsewhere.
"Jones, more than any other person, has made cookbook authors as respectable as her translations of Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre," said Bauer.
"She's the person responsible for publishing Julia Child's and just about all her other books. She turned Marion Cunningham into the modern-day Fannie Farmer, and she brought the soulful recollections and recipes from Edna Lewis to us all. She's edited James Beard, Marcella Hazan, Claudia Roden, Lidia Bastianich, Madhar Jaffrey, and the list of who's who in the cooking world goes on."
Jones, a Knopf editor for more than 50 years, was also responsible for bringing to America, and was the longtime editor of John Updike. Now 84 years old, Jones continues to work fulltime as an editor at Knopf.