Withers, Audrey

▪ 2002

      British journalist (b. March 28, 1905, Hale, Cheshire, Eng.—d. Oct. 26, 2001), was appointed editor of Vogue in 1940 and over the following two decades increased both the magazine's size and its subscription base through her transformation and modernization of its content. She was made OBE in 1953, and she published two books: The Palaces of Leningrad (1973), in collaboration with her second husband, Victor Kennett, and her autobiography, Lifespan (1994).

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