Mary-Kay Wilmers (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 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. Mary-Kay Wilmers was born in Chicago and grew up in New York City. Her mother was Russian and of Russian Jewish descent, while her father's family were, she said, "very English," although they had come from Germany. For many years Wilmers worked on a book, published in 2009 as The Eitingons: A Twentieth Century Story (London, Faber; ISBN 9780571234721), recounting the story of her mother's Russian relations, including that of her grandfather's cousin, Leonid Eitingon, an agent in Joseph Stalin's NKVD who was responsible for masterminding the assassination of Leon Trotsky.