The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

by Sara B. Franklin

Book Overview

An Economist Best Book of 2024

Legendary 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 "surprising, granular, luminous, and path-breaking biography" (Edward Hirsch, author of How to Read a Poem).

At Doubleday's Paris office in 1949,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982134348
• ISBN13: 9781982134341
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"