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The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America Poetry_Gift_Guide “Alex Mar’s bold yet sensitiveLegendary editor Judith Jones, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th centuryincluding Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plathfinally gets her due in this surprising, granular, luminous, and path breaking biography (Edward Hirsch, author of How to Read a Poem). At Doubledays Paris office in 1949, twenty five year old Judith Jones spent most of her time wading through manuscripts in the slush pile and