Judith Jones (née Bailey; March 10, 1924 – August 2, 2017)[1] was an American writer and editor, best known for having rescued The Diary of Anne Frank from the reject pile.

[7] Jones worked for Doubleday, first in New York City and then in Paris, where she read and recommended The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank, pulling it out of the rejection pile.

[8] Jones recalled that she came across Frank's work in a slush pile of material that had been rejected by other publishers; she was struck by a photograph of the girl on the cover of an advance copy of the French edition.

[9] In America's postwar years, home cooking was dominated by packaged and frozen food, with an emphasis on ease and speed.

After the success of Child's cookbook, Jones continued to expand the resource options for American home cooks.

[11] Major culinary authors Jones brought into print include Julia Child, Lidia Bastianich, James Beard, Marion Cunningham, Rosie Daley, Edward Giobbi, Marcella Hazan, Madhur Jaffrey, Irene Kuo, Edna Lewis, Joan Nathan, Scott Peacock, Jacques Pépin, Claudia Roden, and Nina Simonds.

[15] Other major authors whom Jones edited include Langston Hughes, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Jones contributed to Vogue, Saveur, Bon Appétit, Departures, and Gourmet magazines.

[6] Jones died of complications from Alzheimer's disease at age 93 on August 2, 2017, in Walden, Vermont.