Marghanita Laski

Marghanita Laski was an English journalist, radio panellist and novelist: she also wrote literary biography, plays and short stories. Marghanita was born in Manchester, England, to a prominent family of Jewish intellectuals , she was educated at Lady Barn House School and St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith, worked in fashion, then studied English at Somerville College, Oxford She married publisher John Howard , and worked in journalism. Marghanita Laski lived in Hampstead and Abbots Langley. After her son and daughter were born, Laski began writing in earnest: Marghanita was an... omnivorous reader, from 1958 onwards she became a prolific and compulsive contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary and by 1986 had "carded" around 250,000 quotations. In the 1960s, Laski was the science fiction critic for The Observer. Elected Vice Chairwoman of the Arts Council in 1982, she served as Chairwoman of its Literature Panel between 1980 and 1984.
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