Alexandra Pringle

Alexandra Pringle, Hon FRSL (born 1953), is a British publisher. A founding director of Virago Press, she has been editor-in-chief of Bloomsbury Publishing since 2000.

Biography Of Scottish descent and kinsmen of the Pringle baronets of Stichill, her father Alexander Pringle (1920–2010) was the youngest son of the Liberal MP, William Pringle. In 1953 at Edith Grove SW10, she attended Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology (CCAT), after which she embarked on her career in publishing at the British magazine Art Monthly, before joining the women's publisher Virago in 1978. She worked on Virago's Modern Classics series and in 1984 she became their Editorial Director Between 1994 and 1999, she was a literary agent for writers such as Amanda Foreman, Maggie O'Farrell and Ali Smith.

Pringle joined Bloomsbury in 1999, as Head of Adult Publishing. Her authors at Bloomsbury include Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sheila Hancock, Celia Imrie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Colum McCann, Anne Michaels, Ann Patchett, George Saunders, Kamila Shamsie, Patti Smith, Kate Summerscale and Barbara Trapido among others. and Warwick University (2014). She married secondly Richard Peter Stroud, a writer and film-maker, who is chairman of the Chelsea Arts Club. They live on the Chelsea Embankment, London SW3.