A senior editor and vice president at Alfred A. Knopf, where she has worked since 1957, Judith Jones has edited some of the most culturally significant cookbooks of our time, including Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Her impressive author list includes James Beard, Marcella Hazan, Madhur Jaffrey, Anne Tyler, and John Updike. In The Tenth Muse, Jones recounts her relationships with gastronomes such as Julia Child and chronicles her own food-related adventures in Paris and New York.

Alex Prud’Homme is a journalist and author whose work has been published in the New Yorker and Vanity Fair. With his great aunt, Julia Child, as co-author, My Life in France is Prud’homme’s memoir of Child’s formative years in Paris as she explored France, enrolled at Le Cordon Bleu, and published her remarkable tome Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Endowed Lecture