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Legendary editor Judith Jones, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century&8212incuding Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plath&8212finlly gets her due in this &8220surrising, granular, luminous, and path-breaking biography&8221(Edward Hirsch, author of How to Read a Poem). At Doubleday&8217sParis office in 1949, twenty-five-year-old Judith Jones spent most of her time wading through manuscripts in the slush pile and passing on projects&8212untl one day, a book caught her eye. She read it in one sitting, then begged her boss to consider publishing it. A year later, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl became a bestseller. It was the start of a culture-defining career in publishing. During her more than fifty years as an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, Jones nurtured the careers of literary icons such as Sylvia Plath, Anne Tyler, and John Updike, and helped launched new genres and trends in literature. At the forefront of the cookbook revolution, she published the who&8217swho of food writing: Edna Lewis, M.F.K. Fisher, Claudia Roden, Madhur Jaffrey, James Beard, and, most famously, Julia Child. Through her tenacious work behind the scenes, Jones helped turn these authors into household names, changing cultural mores and expectations along the way. Judith&8217swork spanned decades of America&8217smost dramatic cultural change&8212fro the end of World War II through the civil rights movement and the fight for women&8217sequality&8212andthe books she published acted as tools of quiet resistance. Now, based on exclusive interviews, never-before-seen personal papers, and years of research, her astonishing career is explored for the first time in this &8220thoough and humanizing portrait&8221(Kirkus Reviews).