Margaret Busby

b. 1944

1 standalone book

Margaret Busby is a Ghanaian-born publisher, editor, writer and broadcaster resident in the UK. She co-founded the London-based publishing house Allison and Busby in the 1960s, becoming Britain's youngest publisher and the first black female book publisher in the UK. She edited the anthology Daughters of Africa (1992) and its 2019 follow-up New Daughters of Africa. She has received the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature and was named president of English PEN in 2023.

Born

1944