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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 [ 1 ] to 2021, and she remains consulting editor. [ 2 ]
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 ...
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Feb 3, 2021 · Mary-Kay Wilmers was born in Chicago in 1938. Her mother was the daughter of Belorussian Jewish fur traders and her father the son of German Jews. In her family memoir The Eitingons (2009), Wilmers chronicles the near-mythical sagas of those relations on her mother’s side – one, a colleague of Sigmund Freud’s; the other, a Soviet agent who organised the assassination of Leon Trotsky in 1940.
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. It was John who had the idea that I should say something about his professional life at his funeral. It was a very nice idea and I’m glad ...
Aug 28, 2015 · The waiter brings our starters. Mary-Kay looks at the minuscule heaps of piped avocado on my salmon and snorts. Her foie gras is a finger of liver at the bottom of an escarpment of toast. “It ...
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Jan 29, 2021 · Mary-Kay Wilmers is stepping down as editor of the London Review of Books after nearly three decades in the post. Deputy editor Jean McNicol and senior editor Alice Spawls have been appointed to ...
