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Deborah Orr

Deborah Orr (1962–2019) was a Scottish journalist who worked for The Guardian, The Independent, and the New Statesman, among other publications. From 1993 to 1998, she was the first woman editor of Guardian Weekend magazine. Her memoir, Motherwell, was published posthumously in the UK in 2020. (February 2020)

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