Sentence examples for a literary editor from inspiring English sources

More than a decade ago, a literary editor sent me to interview the Irish novelist John McGahern, whose book The Dark was about sexual abuse.

Even his spells as a literary editor felt too constraining.

I didn't know what a literary editor was.

Abla al-Roweny, a literary editor, became one of the earliest female regulars.

In 1945 he left teaching to become a literary editor for the New Statesman.

His marriage to Miriam Gross, later a literary editor at The Observer and The Sunday Telegraph, ended in divorce.

Throw in a decapitated literary editor, a writer's muse flying naked across the USSR, a wall-eyed assassin and a fiendishly allegorical rival plot involving Jesus and Pontius Pilate, and you'll cheer up no end.

A contributing editor of The Nation till his death, Mr. Leonard was also a past literary editor there, a post he held jointly with his wife, Sue Leonard, from 1995 to 1998.

But he was also an influential literary critic, an important literary editor, and a masterful letter writer whose correspondents included Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Gore Vidal, Leonardo Sciascia, Natalia Ginzburg, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Luciano Berio.

This first novel, by a former literary editor of Esquire, is a tale of an eccentric family's meltdown.

The film also stars Glenn Close and Frank Langella as Brian's parents and Lambert Wilson as Valery, Arielle's husband who also has a lover of his own, a young literary editor (Olivia Thirlby).