Agent wins Walwyn prize

Lindesay Irvine writing on Friday May 9, 2008 in The Guardian

Literary agent Clare Alexander has won this year's Kim Scott Walwyn Prize honouring outstanding achievements by women in publishing, receiving a cheque for £3,000 at last night's award ceremony in Oxford.
Alexander has spent more than a 25 years in publishing. She began her career in the rights department of Hamish Hamilton in 1972 before becoming publishing director of Viking and then editor-in-chief of Macmillan.

Full story in The Guardian.

FOOTNOTE.

Bookman Beattie knew Clare during his Penguin Books days and remembers her as a great champion for her authors. Congratulations Clare.