Madhur Jaffery’s "CLIMBING THE MANGO TREE " : OCTOBER 10, 2006

Judith Jones - Senior Editor and Vice-President at Alfred A. Knopf

Judith Jones is Senior Editor and Vice-President at Alfred A. Knopf. She joined the company in 1957 as an editor working primarily on translations of French writers such as Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. 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. Over the years at Knopf she has worked with many distinguished authors, including Elizabeth Bowen, John Hersey, Langston Hughes, William Maxwell, Sharon Olds, J.F. Powers, Arthur Rubinstein, Peter Taylor, Anne Tyler, and, for more than forty years and more than fifty books, John Updike. She has been particularly interested in developing a list of first-rate cookbook writers and her authors in that area have included Julia Child (Judith published Julia's first book and was her editor ever after), Nancy Verde Barr, Lidia Bastianich, James Beard, Marion Cunningham, Rosie Daley, Marcella Hazan, Ken Hom, Madhur Jaffrey, Irene Kuo, Edna Lewis, Scott Peacock, Joan Nathan, Jacques Pépin, Claudia Roden, Nina Simonds, and Anna Thomas, among many others. She is the co-author with Evan Jones (her late husband) of three books: The Book of Bread; Knead It, Punch It, Bake It! (for children); and The Book of New New England Cookery. She also collaborated with Angus Cameron on The L.L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook. Recently, she has contributed to Vogue, Saveur, and Gourmet magazines. Ms. Jones lives in New York City, and in northern Vermont in the summer.