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 legendary ...

When I first interviewed Judith Jones in 1984 for a newspaper story about a book on New England cooking she and her husband, Evan, were working on, she let him do the talking. Fit and petite, Jones ...

It was early the week of Thanksgiving 1959 when William Koshland, an executive at the publishing house, Alfred A. Knopf, handed a thick, unwieldy stack of paper to Judith Jones. It was a cookbook, he ...

Sara B. Franklin is the author of the just-published biography, “The Editor,” which explores the life of publishing legend Judith Jones. A writer, teacher and oral historian with a Ph.D. in food ...

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 ...

In 2007, at the age of 83, the great book editor Judith Jones published a slim, sparkling memoir that danced over the major events of her life and publishing career, chiefly as related to cooking and ...

Judith Jones may not have been a household name, but without her, some of the world's most famous books may never have made it to many library and kitchen shelves. The editor died Wednesday at her ...

Judith Jones, the legendary editor who helped get The Diary of Anne Frank published and introduced Julia Child to a generation of adoring Americans, has died at 93. “For many years, she and Blanche ...