Kathrine Sorley Walker (5 March 1920 – 14 April 2015) was a British writer, editor and critic with a particular focus on ballet. The author of many books on dance, she reviewed dance performances in a variety of outlets including ''

Dancing Times ''Dancing Times'' is a dancing magazine based in the UK, the oldest dance magazine to be still published. The magazine helped found the Royal Academy of Dance, the Camargo Society, and the British Dance Council The British Dance Council was f ...

'' and ''

Dance International Dance International is a print and online magazine for members of the International Dance Teachers Association. www. idta.co.uk The same title is also used by a Canadian online magazine . ''Dance International'' is a nonprofit arts magazine p ...

'', as well as being the ballet critic for the ''Daily Telegraph'' for 24 years. In addition to her writings on dance, she served as the co-editor for the literary estate of the American novelist and screenwriter

Raymond Chandler Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive durin ...

following his death in 1959. After Chandler's death, his literary agent and lover Helga Greene and his private secretary Jean Fracasse entered into a legal battle over Chandler's estate. Following Greene's success in the courts, she hired Walker and Dorothy Gardiner to compile Chandler's letters, essays and unfinished novel into a book, '' Raymond Chandler Speaking''. Walker worked for Greene's literary agency for 25 years, until Greene's death. Walker co-wrote a history of The Royal Ballet as well as writing a biography of the company's founder

Ninette de Valois Dame Ninette de Valois (born Edris Stannus; 6 June 1898 – 8 March 2001) was an Irish-born British dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director of classical ballet. Most notably, she danced professionally with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, ...

. She wrote biographies of the sultan Saladin and the ''Sunday Times'' dance critic

Cyril W. Beaumont Cyril W. Beaumont OBE (1 November 1891 – 24 May 1976) was a British dance historian, critic, technical theorist, translator, bookseller, and publisher. Author of more than forty books on ballet, he is considered one of the most important danc ...

. She contributed articles on Anna Pavlova,

George Balanchine George Balanchine (; Various sources: * * * * born Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze; ka, გიორგი მელიტონის ძე ბალანჩივაძე; January 22, 1904 (O. S. January 9) – April 30, 1983) was ...

and Michel Fokine for the '' Encyclopædia Britannica''.

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