Maggie Alderson

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Maggie Alderson (born 1959) is a British author, magazine editor and fashion journalist. She is the former editor of ES, the Evening Standard magazine (British Society of Magazine Editors, Editor of the Year, Colour Supplements 1989) and British Elle magazines. In Australia, she was acting editor of Cleo and editor of Mode.

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Education

Alderson has an MA in Art History from the University of St Andrews.

Career

Alderson was a reporter for Fleet Street in the 1980s. [1]

In 1996 she joined the Sydney Morning Herald as a Senior Writer and for many years covered the fashion shows in Paris, Milan and London for the paper. Her weekly column, on a loose fashion and style theme, appeared in Good Weekend (the Saturday magazine of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers) for over ten years. She has also had a similar column in The Times , in the UK.

On 4 November 2010, it was announced that Alderson's column would no longer be appearing in Good Weekend. [2]

The internationally bestselling Girls Night In "chick lit" anthology series she co-edited with author Jessica Adams and columnist Imogen Edwards-Jones made millions for the charity War Child. [3]

She was co-editor, with Jessica Adams, Imogen Edwards-Jones and Kathy Lette, of In Bed With, a collection of erotic short stories written by leading female novelists (Fay Weldon, Joanne Harris, Ali Smith, Esther Freud, Justine Picardie, among others).

Personal Life

She lived in Sydney for eight years and also holds Australian citizenship. [4] She is married with one daughter. [5]

Novels

Non-fiction

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References

  1. "Breaking the mould". The Age. 30 October 2008. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  2. "Alderson is not the only casualty in GW redesign, sources". www.theaustralian.com.au.
  3. "Girls' Night In | Ladies' Night". Archived from the original on 29 August 2007. Retrieved 20 July 2008.
  4. "Vogue Book Club: The Scent of You". Vogue. 10 April 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  5. Lucy, Kippist (29 May 2015). "Maggie Alderson on motherhood, books and how to keep secrets". Kidspot.