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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.
Charming letters home from a nanny. By Nina Stibbe. Review by Deborah Hopkinson. Nina Stibbe was 20 years old in 1982 when she moved to London to become the live-in nanny for Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor of the London Review of Books, and her sons Sam and Will (whose father is film director Stephen Frears).
Dec 6, 2009 · M ary-Kay Wilmers is best known as the long-standing editor of the London Review of Books. In this, her first book, she has produced a deftly woven saga about three members...
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.
An incisive collection of essays by the editor of the London Review of Books, whom Hilary Mantel has called “a presiding genius” Mary-Kay Wilmers cofounded the London Review of Books in 1979, and has been its sole editor since 1992.
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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.
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Nov 13, 2009 · Mary-Kay Wilmers has spent her professional life "obsessively attending to" other people's words. Now she has produced her own – also a life's work, or at least two decades', drawing on a...
