The Editor Who Fought to Publish Julia Child When No One Else Would

Photo credit: Bell Jason. Article by Sara B. Franklin. Bon Appétit – May 21, 2024. Excerpt from ‘The Editor’ by Sara B. Franklin.

In 1959, publishers looked down upon cookbooks. But when the book editor Judith Jones came across an unknown writer named Julia Child, she knew she was onto something big.

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 said. Koshland, who hadn’t a clue about cookbooks, asked Judith if she’d weigh in. […]

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