The Childs were older than the Jones and, in Paris, more prosperous. Most importantly, both came to learn about and love French cooking in post World War II Paris, though their paths never crossed there. Both married older, urbane men and did not have children. In both households, food was bland, boring, not considered a suitable topic of interest or conversation at the dinner table or elsewhere. Both came from stuffy upper-class families: Child in Pasadena, California, Jones in New York City and Vermont. But their lives had significant parallels. Physically, the two women couldn’t have been more different: Child was famously tall and broad-faced Jones is slight and, at 92, still slender and lithe. It’s not an exaggeration to say that without Judith Jones, an editor at Knopf, Julia Child may not have become the iconic person and personality who became a driving force in changing how America views food and cooking. In 2006, she was awarded the James Beard Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.PHOTO © CHRISTOPHER HIRSHEIMERShe’s as legendary in publishing circles as her most celebrated culinary author. Recently, she has contributed to Vogue, Saveur, and Gourmet magazines. She also collaborated with Angus Cameron on The L.L. She is the coauthor with Evan Jones (her late husband) of two books: The Book of Bread: Knead It, Punch It, Bake It! (for children) and The Book of New New England Cookery.
In addition to her literary authors, she has been particularly interested in developing a list of first-rate cookbook writers her authors have included Julia Child (Judith published Julia's first book and was her editor ever after), Lidia Bastianich, James Beard, Marion Cunningham, Rosie Daley, Marcella Hazan, Madhur Jaffrey, Edna Lewis, Scott Peacock, Joan Nathan, Jacques Pépin, Claudia Roden, and Nina Simonds. She had worked before that for Doubleday, first in New York and then in Paris, where she was responsible for reading and recommending The Diary of Anne Frank.
She joined the company in 1957 as an editor working primarily on translations of French writers such as Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. Judith Jones is Senior Editor and Vice President at Alfred A.
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