Helen Fraser (executive)
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Dame Helen Fraser DBE |
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| Born |
Helen Jean Sutherland Fraser 8 June 1949 |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Collegiate Girls' School, Leicester |
| Alma mater | St Anne's College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Editor and publisher |
| Spouse(s) | Grant James McIntyre (m. 1982) |
| Children | Four |
Dame Helen Jean Sutherland Fraser, DBE (born 8 June 1949) is a British executive and publisher. From 2010 to 2016, she was the chief executive officer of the Girls' Day School Trust. She previously worked in publishing, and was an editor then managing director at a number of publishers including Heinemann and Penguin UK.
Fraser was born on 8 June 1949. Her father was George Sutherland Fraser, the poet and literary critic. She was educated at the Collegiate Girls' School, an all-girls independent school in Leicester. She studied English language and literature at St Anne's College, Oxford, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1970; as per tradition, her BA was later promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Oxon) degree.
After graduating from university in 1970, Fraser spent nine months teaching English in Paris, France. She then went travelling in Southeast Asia with the money she had earned teaching.
In 1972, Fraser joined Methuen Publishing as a "trainee-cum-secretary". By her second year with the company she was commissioning books; one of her first was The Novels of Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee. In 1974, she left Methuen to start an independent publishing company with two colleagues: it was called Open Books, specialised in academic works, and was funded by Mitchell Beazley. Mitchell Beazley withdrew their funding from the company in 1976.
In 1976, Fraser joined Fontana as a non-fiction editor. She helped edit the Fontana Modern Masters alongside the series editor Frank Kermode. In 1981, she was promoted to editorial director at William Collins, the parent company of Fontana. She was made head of Flamingo, the "literary paperback list", and also became involved in hardback publishing in 1986. She was fired from William Collins in 1987.
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