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The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
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Author:
Sara B. Franklin
Publisher:
Atria Books
Date:
May 28, 2024
Legendary editor Judith Jones, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century â including Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plath â gets her due in this intimate biography.
What The Reviewers Say
While Jones’s memoir is a quicker, more effervescent read, Franklin, a loyal amanuensis, has filled in the holes, restored the cultural context and talked up the triumphs in an extraordinary life..
Essential if adulatory.
Engaging.
The Editor presents [Jones] as both a case study and an agent of change in American conceptions of femininity inside and outside the home. But it also reads, more often than not, like a love story: a great, sweeping seven-decade romance between a woman and her work..
