Search results
Spouse. Stephen Frears (1968–early 1970s) Children. 2. 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 [1] to 2021, and she remains consulting editor. [2] She is a recipient of the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature.
Mary-Kay Wilmers is excessively gloomy, or excessively modest, in declaring that ‘there are few great book reviews’ and that ‘the best one can hope for is that some will prove memorable over the lifetime of an editor or his magazine’ (LRB, 15 September). Has she forgotten that a not insignificant proportion of the canon of non-fictional prose consists of books reviews – by, for ...
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. 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. She is the author of The Eitingons ...
Nov 10, 1988 · Mary-Kay Wilmers’s memory is as long as it is false. Reviewing the Faber Book of Seductions ( LRB , 10 November 1988 ), she ‘was reminded of Christopher Ricks saying twenty years ago, in an article about the sexual revolution of the Sixties, that he was against the whole thing on the ground that the new free-for-all was unfair to plain women.
Oct 24, 2019 · Published Oct. 24, 2019 Updated Oct. 25, 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 ...
People also ask
Who is Mary-Kay Wilmers?
Where did Mary-Kay Wilmers grow up?
Who is Margaret Wilmers?
Mary-Kay Wilmers. 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 ...
