Marilyn Malin was a British literary agent, an editor and a publisher; she was the managing director of Methuen Children's Books.
Marilyn's parents were Irene (née Littenberg) and Albert Malin; she was Jewish, and born and brought up in Golders Green, London.
It was an outward-looking company whose sense of identity was enhanced by bright design, a keen marketing drive, and a strong European flavour".
[4] Her acceptance, in 1966 with Olive Jones, of The River Kings by Max Fatchen, has been described as the result of "a culture of calculated risk".
[8] She published Michael Morpurgo's Warhorse, and books by Floella Benjamin, John Agard and James Berry.