13 Facts About Lennie Goodings

Lennie Goodings was born on 1953 and is a Canadian-born publisher active in the United Kingdom.

Lennie Goodings is Chair of the UK British publishing house Virago Press.

Lennie Goodings was born in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, in 1953.

Lennie Goodings's father was a civil engineer and her mother, a nurse; she has four younger siblings.

At Queen's University, in Kingston, Ontario, Goodings studied Film and English Literature, arriving in London in 1977.

Lennie Goodings is married with two children, Amy and Zachary.

Lennie Goodings has worked for Virago Press since 1978, through all its ownership changes.

Lennie Goodings was part of Virago's management-buy-out team in 1987, becoming the Publishing Director in 1992.

Lennie Goodings remained as Publisher and Editorial Director when, after eight years of independence, the company was sold to Little, Brown in 1995.

Lennie Goodings became Virago Chair in 2017 and appointed Sarah Savitt as Publisher.

Lennie Goodings has written a children's book When I Grow Up.

Lennie Goodings has been a trustee of English PEN and is a board member of the charity Poet in the City.

Lennie Goodings received The Booksellers Industry Award: Editor and Imprint of the Year in 2010 and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Queen's University in Canada in 2004 and A Lifetime's Achievement at WOW in 2018.