Magdalen Margaret Christian Fergusson[1] OBE FRSL is a British biographer and editor.
In addition to serving as literary editor for The Tablet and as editor of the Royal Society of Literature Review, she is the writer of two biographies on British writers: George Mackay Brown: The Life (2006) and Michael Morpurgo: War Child to War Horse (2013).
While working at the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) as secretary (a position she had held since 1989), Fergusson became interested in the writer George Mackay Brown after finding his work in the society's library.
[2][3] With the support of Mackay Brown and his editor Hugo Brunner, Fergusson decided to write a biography on him.
[5] She was made Member of the Order of the British Empire at the 2012 New Year Honours "for services to Literature".