Sally Ann Laird (2 May 1956 – 15 July 2010) was a British editor and translator who specialised in Russian literature.
Laird was born in the London Borough of Barnet and attended Camden School for Girls.
[1] Laird went on to Harvard University, on a Harkness Fellowship, where she gained an MA in Soviet studies in 1981.
After leaving the magazine she worked as a translator and editor, and reviewed books for The Observer.
[4] The Washington Post reviewed her translation of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya's The Time: Night: "Sally Laird's version, although a bit British and a bit bowdlerized, conveys the wonderful fluidity and occasional frenzy of the monologue "written" by Petrushevskaya's narrator".