Auteur: Tania Alexander

Tania Alexander (1915-2004) was an author, translator and theatrical adviser. She also worked in publishing, for Secker & Warburg in the late 1930s. Frederic Warburg wrote of her, « Tania ran her affairs, as she ran mine, with spasmodic violence and unusual powers of forgetfulness . . . She made many mistakes but never a blunder. She understood what none of my colleagues except Senhouse understood: that Secker & Warburg was . . . not so much a commercial enterprise as a « movement ». It followed that « public relations » was the most important of our activities and as a PRO Tania was unexcelled, everybody liked her. » Later on, she worked with Ken Loach and Jonathan Miller among others. In addition to her memoir An Estonian Childhood (Faber Finds) she also wrote with Vera Stone A Little Russian Cookbook.