About Judith Jones

Judith Jones is Senior Editor and Vice-President at Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.. She joined Knopf in 1957, at first working primarily on translations of French writers such as Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. Over the years she has worked with many distinguished authors, including Julia Child, James Beard, Marion Cunningham, Marcella Hazan, Ken Hom, Madhur Jaffrey, Edna Lewis, William Maxwell, Joan Nathan, Claudia Roden, Anne Tyler, and John Updike. She is the author of a cookbook, The Pleasures of Cooking for One, a memoir, The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food, and the co-author (with Evan Jones, her late husband) of three additional cookbooks. She has contributed to Vogue, Saveur, Departures, and Gourmet magazines. In 2006, she was awarded the James Beard Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, and the following year the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals. She lives in New York City and Vermont. (Photo of Judith Jones by Christopher Hirsheimer)