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White Hart Series: Author Sara B. Franklin, THE EDITOR, in Conversation with Alice Quinn

White Hart Series: Author Sara B. Franklin, THE EDITOR, in Conversation with Alice Quinn In-Person

Oblong Books in partnership with The White Hart Inn and the Scoville Memorial Library present author Sara B. Franklin and Alice Quinn in conversation about Franklin's new book The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America.
 
This event will meet at the White Hart Inn, 15 Under Mountain Road Salisbury, CT.
 
The Editor is the story of a publishing legend, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century. During her more than fifty years as an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, Judith Jones nurtured the careers of literary icons such as Sylvia Plath, Anne Tyler, and John Updike, and helped launched new genres and trends in literature. At the forefront of the cookbook revolution, she published the who’s who of food writing: Edna Lewis, M.F.K. Fisher, Claudia Roden, Madhur Jaffrey, James Beard, and, most famously, Julia Child. 
 

Sara B. Franklin is a writer, teacher, and oral historian. She received a 2020–2021 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Public Scholars grant for her research on Judith Jones, and teaches courses on food, writing, embodied culture, and oral history at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is the author of The Editor, the editor of Edna Lewis, and coauthor of The Phoenicia Diner Cookbook. She holds a PhD in food studies from NYU and studied documentary storytelling at both the Duke Center for Documentary Studies and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. She lives in Kingston, New York.

Alice Quinn, executive director of the Poetry Society of America for eighteen years, has also served as the poetry editor at The New Yorker from 1987 to 2007 and was an editor at Alfred A. Knopf for more than ten years prior to that. She teaches at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and is the editor of a book of Elizabeth Bishop’s writings, Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected PoemsDrafts, and Fragments, as well as a forthcoming book of Bishop’s journals. She lives in New York City and Millerton, New York.

Tickets are required for this White Hart Series event. To learn more and purchase an advance ticket, please use this link.

Date:
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Time:
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Off Site
Categories:
  Adult Program