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- Mary-Kay Wilmers has been the editor of the London Review of Books since 1992. Mary-Kay Wilmers was born in Chicago, and grew up in New York City and in Brussels. With a Polish mother and British father, she moved to school in England and graduated from Oxford in 1960, having read modern languages. After graduation she went to work at the publishers Faber & Faber, where, among many books, she was responsible for the publication of one of the first books of British feminism, Patriarchal Attitudes by Eva Figes. She left Faber aged 29 to become deputy editor of the Listener, edited by Karl Miller, and after a spell at the Times Literary Supplement in the 1970s, she joined Miller in founding the London Review of Books. Since she became editor in 1992, the LRB's circulation has grown to 48,000, making it the largest selling literary publication in Europe. As an editor, she has been closely associated with the work of a number of novelists and essayists, including Alan Bennett, Jenny Diski, John Lanchester, Jeremy Harding, Andrew O'Hagan, Rory Stewart, Eliot Weinberger, Jacqueline Rose, Hilary Mantel, Edward Said, and Stephen Sedley. Wilmers has written for the Listener, the TLS, the New Review, the New Yorker, and the London Review of Books. For many years she has been at work on a book about her family, The Eitingons, which will be published in 2009. Wilmers was formerly married to film director Stephen Frears; they had two (now adult) children together. A book of tributes to her, Bad Character, was published privately in June 2008 and distributed as a limited edition.
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