Background
Wilson was born in New York City and grew up on Martha"s Vineyard.
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Victoria Wilson
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She attended Goddard College and New York"s New School for Social Research.
Career
She began working at Alfred A. Knopf Publishers in 1972, and she was promoted in 1988 to Senior Editor, Vice President, and Associate Publisher. Authors she edits include Lorrie Moore, Alice Adams, William Gass, Meryle Secrest and Anne Rice. She also held several positions at the Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association American Center, including the Executive board and Treasurer from 1997 to 1999.
She also served as Vice President of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.
She taught in the writing program at Columbia University from 1992 to 1993. was appointed by Bill Clinton to the USCCR vacancy left by the 1998 death of A. Leon Higginbotham Junior. voted in support of a USCCR report which found voting irregularities in Florida during the United States presidential election, 2000. Once in office, President George West. Bush attempted to replace with Peter Kirsanow, but USCCR Commissioner Mary Frances Berry refused Krisanow a seat.
Kirsanow sued, claiming "s tenure had expired and he had been validly appointed. is a stepdaughter of Stella Adler and has announced her plans to write a biography of Barbara Stanwyck. Her father, physicist Mitchell, was a novelist who had a book adapted by Jean Renoir into Woman on the Beach.
Her mother Helen was a patients" rights advocate.
Her restored home was featured in the New York Times.
