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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,...
Aug 28, 2015 · Lunch with the FT: Mary-Kay Wilmers. Over artichoke risotto in Marylebone, the formidable editor of the London Review of Books talks about controversy, literary neighbours and Helena Bonham...
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.
Mary-Kay Wilmers co-founded the London Review of Books in 1979, and has been its sole editor since 1992. After a childhood spent in America, Belgium and England, Wilmers went to Oxford to read French and Russian.
Mary-Kay Wilmers. Elected: 2017. Year of birth: 1938. Honorary. Hanif Kureishi. More of our Fellows. Fellowship Election Process . Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour.
Apr 20, 2010 · A quite interesting family tale by a very talented English writer, Mary-Kay Wilmers. Ms. Wilmers tracks down, as best she can, the story of her extended Jewish family. Three men are the focus; a New York fur merchant, a high KGB officer, and a disciple of Freud.
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