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Mary-Kay Wilmers (born 19 July 1938) is an editor and journalist who has been the editor of the ''London Review of Books'' since 1992.〔Brooks, Richard. ("London Review of Books £27m in the red – but it isn’t counting" ), ''The Times'', 24 January 2010. Retrieved 7 February 2011.〕 ==Family and education== Mary-Kay Wilmers was born in Chicago and grew up in New York City. Her mother was Russian of Russian Jewish descent, while her father's family were, she said, "very English", although they had come from Germany.〔Watson, Heather. ("In conversation with Mary-Kay Wilmers" ), ''P.N. Review'', Volume 28, Number 1, September – October 2001. Retrieved 14 February 2011.〕 For many years Wilmers worked on a book, published in 2009 as ''The Eitingons: A Twentieth Century Story'', recounting the story of her mother's Russian relations, including the psychoanalyst Max Eitingon, as well as her grandfather's cousin Leonid Eitingon, an agent in Joseph Stalin's NKVD who was responsible for masterminding the assassination of Leon Trotsky.〔Tonkin, Boyd (""Mary-Kay Wilmers: London's mythical urban elite made flesh" ), ''The Independent'', 22 February 2013〕 In 1946 Wilmers' parents moved to Europe, spending time in London, Portugal, Belgium and Switzerland. Her father established a utilities company that became a Belgian multinational.〔McKay, Sinclair. ("The London Review of Books celebrated its 30th Birthday" ), ''The Daily Telegraph'', 30 October 2009. Retrieved 14 February 2011.〕 Wilmers was educated in Brussels and at boarding school in England. She said that for some time she was happier speaking in French than in English.〔 At Oxford, where Wilmers read modern languages at St Hugh's College from 1957,〔("Modern Languages at St Hugh's" ), St Hugh's Newsletter, Spring 2008, p.14〕 she became a friend of Alan Bennett, later a regular contributor to the ''London Review of Books'', who said about her time at university that, "Outside the novels of Nancy Mitford or Evelyn Waugh, I had never come across anyone who behaved so confidently or in such a cosmopolitan fashion."〔McElvoy, Anne. ("Mary-Kay Wilmers: Queen of Plots" ), ''The Sunday Times'', 18 October 2009. Retrieved 8 February 2011.〕 For the week of her finals she moved into the Randolph Hotel, staying with her father whose presence was required as Wilmers was threatening to refuse to sit the exams.〔Wroe, Nicholas.("Mary-Kay Wilmers: A Life In Writing" ), ''The Guardian'', 24 October 2009. Retrieved 7 February 2011.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary-Kay Wilmers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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