Alexandra Pringle

Alexandra Pringle is one of the UK’s most distinguished publishers. A founding director of Virago Press, she served for more than two decades as editor-in-chief of Bloomsbury Publishing, where she edited and published writers including Margaret Atwood, Jhumpa Lahiri, Khaled Hosseini, Ann Patchett, George Saunders, Kamila Shamsie, Patti Smith, and Elizabeth Gilbert. She is an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a patron of Index on Censorship.