Warner, Marina Sarah (1946– )

English literary critic and writer. Following acclaim as Young Writer of the Year in 1969, she has won numerous awards, and in 1994 delivered the Reith Lectures, a series entitled Six Myths of Our Time, published as Managing Monsters (1994). Other works include Alone of all her Sex: The Myth and Culture of the Virgin Mary (1976), Monuments and Maidens (1985), and Mermaids in the Basement (1993).

Warner was born in London and educated at St Mary's Convent, Ascot, and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She was the Paul Getty Scholar at the Getty Centre for the History of Art and the Humanities 1987–88 and the Tinbergen Professor at Erasmus University, Rotterdam 1990–91. She won the Fawcett prize in 1986, and the Commonwealth Writers' prize (Eurasia) in 1989.