Mary-Kay Wilmers
Auteur de The Eitingons: a twentieth-century story
A propos de l'auteur
Mary-Kay Wilmers, best known as the editor of the London Review of Books, began looking into aspects of her remarkable family twenty years ago. The result is a book of astonishing scope and thrilling originality that throws light into some of the darkest corners of the last century. At the center afficher plus of the story stands the author herself-ironic, precise, searching and stylish-wondering not only about where she is from, but about what she is entitled to know. afficher moins
Œuvres de Mary-Kay Wilmers
London Review of Books Vol. 42 No. 15 - 30 July 2020 1 exemplaire
London Review of Books Vol. 42 No. 14 - 16 July 2020 1 exemplaire
London Review of Books. Vol 25 No.10 (22 May 2003) 1 exemplaire
London Review of books 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1938-07-19
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
USA - Lieu de naissance
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA (birth)
New York, New York, USA
Brussels, Belgium - Études
- Oxford University (St. Hugh's College)
- Professions
- editor (London Review of Books)
biographer - Relations
- Frears, Stephen (husband | divorced)
Bennett, Alan (friend)
Figes, Eva (author)
London Review of Books (co-founding editor|1979) - Organisations
- Faber & Faber
The Listener
The Times Literary Supplement
The London Review of Books - Prix et distinctions
- Royal Society of Literature (honorary fellow, 2017)
Benson Medal - Courte biographie
- Mary-Kay Wilmers was born in Chicago, Illinois, to British-German-Russian parents, and spent her early childhood in Long Island, New York. In 1946, the family moved to Europe, and she was educated in Brussels and at boarding school in England. She read modern languages at Oxford University, where she became a friend of Alan Bennett. After graduating, she got a job with the publishing house Faber & Faber, at first as a secretary, then rose to become an editor. Among her authors was Eva Figes, whom she commissioned to write Patriarchal Attitudes (1970), one of the early key British feminist books. At age 29, Mary-Kay left Faber to become deputy editor of The Listener, and in the 1970s worked at The Times Literary Supplement. In 1979, she co-founded the London Review of Books (LRB), an offshoot of the New York Review of Books, now the largest-selling literary publication in Europe. She became co-editor in 1988 and editor in 1992. As an editor, she has worked closely with many now-famous writers, often publishing them at the beginning of their literary careers, including Alan Bennett, Oliver Sacks, Jenny Diski, Seamus Heaney, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes, Hilary Mantel, and Colm Tóibín. She has also written for the New Review, and The New Yorker. In 1968, she married film director Stephen Frears, with whom she had two sons; the couple later divorced. In 2009, she published The Eitingons: A Twentieth Century Story, an account of her mother's extended Russian Jewish family.
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- 10
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 110
- Popularité
- #176,729
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 13
- Langues
- 1
Karl Miller is forthright in his enjoyable argument of praise for Edna O'Brien, although one feels one could only dream of such robust elevation for black and brown writers as a class.
Meek writing on Shishkin is one of those examples of why we read the LRB - those reviews that are grander to read than the books themselves, that decode and give meaning and context to them much as a good curator helps one take in and appreciate an artwork so much more than if approached in a vacuum of understanding.
And Jameson on McGurl's the Programme Era, eight years later, still seems to describe our literary landscape. A fantastic overview with a constructive critique to have in the LRB.
A very good edition.… (plus d'informations)