Marilyn Malin

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Marilyn Malin
Born1935or1936
Died2022 (2023)
Education North London Collegiate School
Alma mater King's College London
Occupations
  • publisher
  • editor
  • agent
Known formanaging director at Methuen Children's Books

Marilyn Malin was a British literary agent, an editor and a publisher; she was the managing director of Methuen Children's Books.

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Early life and education

Marilyn's parents were Irene (née Littenberg) and Albert Malin; she was Jewish, and born and brought up in Golders Green, London. [1] She had at least one sister. [1] Marilyn attended North London Collegiate School. [1] She was awarded a state scholarship, which she took up at King's College London. [1] [2]

Career

Malin got a job as a secretary at the publishers Blackie and Son in the 1950s. [1] In the 1960s she joined Methuen Children's Books, first as an assistant to Olive Jones. [1] She became assistant children's books editor in 1965, and, towards the end of the 1960s, managing director. [1] [2] With Charles Shirley, she "create[d] the separate entity of Methuen Children's Books. It was an outward-looking company whose sense of identity was enhanced by bright design, a keen marketing drive, and a strong European flavour". [3] Malin was described as one of the "eminent editorial directors of her time". [4] Her acceptance, in 1966 with Olive Jones, of The River Kings by Max Fatchen, has been described as the result of "a culture of calculated risk". [5]

In the 1980s, Malin left Methuen to become a literary agent. [4]

Malin was the UK editor for Astrid Lindgren, and for Ivan Southall. [6] [7] She was editor for Rosemary Manning, and wrote about her for the journal Bookbird . [8] She published Michael Morpurgo's Warhorse , and books by Floella Benjamin, John Agard and James Berry. [1] She worked with Michael Palin on his children's book Small Harry. [9] Malin was the agent for Kjartan Poskitt, [10] She was a mentor to the illustrator Jane Pinkney. [11] Malin commissioned a book written by Alison Prince with 21 primary school children. [12]

In 1986 Malin started her own publishing imprint, Marilyn Malin Books, in partnership with André Deutsch. [1] [13]

Personal life

Malin died in 2022 aged 86. [1] [4] [14]

Publications

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