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Imprisoned by the Bolsheviks, and questioned by the FBI in a state of Cold War paranoia: was Motty everybody's friend or everybody's enemy? Mary-Kay Wilmers began exploring the history of her remarkable family twenty years ago. The result is a book of astonishing scope and thrilling originality which throws light into some of the darkest ...
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.
Feb 22, 2013 · Born: Mary-Kay Wilmers, 19 July 1938, Chicago, Illinois. Family: Born to an English father who ran a multinational utilities company and a Russian-Jewish mother. Married film director Stephen ...
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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 ...
Farrar, Straus, 455 pp., $18, September 2014, 978 0 374 53494 3. Marianne Moore was born in her mother’s childhood bedroom; grown up, she lived with her mother – most often shared her bed – until her mother died. She was then 59 and her mother 85; she lived another 25 years and died in 1972 a happy spinster, a famous poet and a grande dame.
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 ...
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 ...
