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Mary-Kay Wilmers, Hon. FRSL (born 19 July 1938) is an American editor and journalist. She was the editor of the London Review of Books from 1992 to 2021, and she remains consulting editor. She is a recipient of the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature.
Oct 24, 2019 · O n an unusually sunny, cool summer day in London, Mary-Kay Wilmers, 81, was at work in a large, light-filled loft in Bloomsbury, home to the offices of what she calls “the paper” and its readers...
- Wyatt Mason
Jul 20, 2018 · Mary-Kay Wilmers, 80, has edited the London Review of Books since 1992. As its steward, she sent circulation numbers up, made the long-form essays by writers such as Hilary Mantel, Anne Enright,...
Mary-Kay Wilmers helped to found the LRB in 1979 and was its editor for many years. Her pieces have been collected as Human Relations and Other Difficulties. She is now the paper’s consulting editor.
Feb 3, 2021 · How Mary-Kay Wilmers transformed the London Review of Books. The celebrated LRB editor, who has stepped down after nearly 30 years in the role, became a quiet salonnière for a fading journalistic sensibility.
Aug 27, 2019 · Mary-Kay Wilmers is the co-founder and longtime editor of the LRB. After a childhood spent in America, Belgium and England, Wilmers went to Oxford to read French and Russian. She is the author of The Eitingons, a book about her family and their cold war deeds and misdeeds, which the Daily Telegraph called “transfixingly readable."
Mary-Kay Wilmers cofounded the London Review of Books in 1979 and was its sole editor from 1992 until 2021. Her editorial life began long before that: she started work as a secretary at Faber and Faber in the time of T.S. Eliot, then moved on to The Listener and the Times Literary Supplement.
