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Endpoint: Fiona Macpherson



created on: 18/08/2020
by: Nathalie (5022)
 
 

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Fiona Macpherson (born September 2, 1940, London, UK - died November 28 2000 (aged 60)) was the editor in chief of Harpers and Queen from 1994 till her death in 2000.

Macpherson was born in London, but her family of Scots ancestry moved to Inverness when she was five. She attended the Inverness Royal Academy, then read English and modern history at St Andrews University and took a post-graduate course at Edinburgh University before starting at Thomson's.

Fiona started her career with the publishing house DC Thomson, in Dundee. It was the late 1950s, a period when the stirrings of what would become the teen market prompted the earliest magazines aimed specifically at under-18 girls. Macpherson worked for one of those initial successes, Diana, as a sub-editor. She was also an early agony aunt, and wrote the odd piece of fiction for Diana's pages. A decade later, she would be in the shiny London offices of National Magazines, putting together pages on high fashion and high society.

In 1963, she joined Woman's Own in London. Two years later, she became sub-editor, and then arts editor, on the glossy Queen magazine, under the editorship of Jocelyn Stevens. In 1970, Queen was taken over by Harper's, the offshoot of America's east coast Harper's Bazaar; Macpherson became deputy editor of the newly amalgamated titles.

After five years she left to raise her family (she had married Queen’s cookery editor, Adrian Bailey),freelancing wherever she could.

In 1993, after a 17-year break she was brought back to Harper's as editor by the management of National Magazines, who admired her style, her strength in the features field, and her encouragement of new writers, photographers and illustrators.
When she returned to H&Q, its circulation wastumbling. Fiona reversed the decline, and made the magazine moreprofitable than it had ever been.

She lived in London during the week, returning home to Bath at weekends to see her husband Adrian Bailey and children Oliver and Susannah.

When she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the end of 1996, she decided not to tell any of her colleagues apart from her PA; she carried on working for another four years. Fiona Mary Macpherson died November 28 2000.
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Married to : Adrian Bailey
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Item number : 31955

Submitted by : Nathalie (5022)
on : 18/08/2020