Lecture Room XI, Brasenose College
Mary-Kay Wilmers is an editor and journalist. She has edited the London Review of Books since 1992.
Before working at the LRB, she read modern languages at Oxford University, where she was friends with Alan Bennett. She was a secretary at Faber and Faber, typing up T.S. Eliot’s letters before moving on to edit for the publisher. She has written for the Listener, the TLS, the New Review and the New Yorker. She helped to found the London Review of Books in 1979, and has since worked with writers including Hilary Mantel, Alan Hollinghurst, Seamus Heaney, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes, and Colm Tóibín.
She has also written The Eitingtons, a book which explores her family’s past, including a KGB killer, a psychoanalyst protégé of Freud and interrogations under the Bolsheviks and the FBI.
This talk is a must for anyone interested in writing, editing or journalism.
Free to Oxford Media Society (£10 for a year)
£2 to non-members
All Welcome
She has also written The Eitingtons, a book which explores her family’s past, including a KGB killer, a psychoanalyst protégé of Freud and interrogations under the Bolsheviks and the FBI.
This talk is a must for anyone interested in writing, editing or journalism.
Free to Oxford Media Society (£10 for a year)
£2 to non-members
All Welcome
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