John Lehmann

Other names: 

Rudolph John Frederick Lehmann

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Date of birth: 
02 Jun 1907
City of birth: 
Bourne End, Buckinghamshire
Country of birth: 
England
Date of death: 
07 Apr 1987
Location of death: 
Westminster
Location: 

London

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About: 

John Lehmann was a writer, poet and publisher. He was the editor of the hugely influential magazine New Writing (1936-40), which also published South Asian writers such as Ahmed Ali and Mulk Raj Anand. He was managing director for Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press from 1938-46, before founding his own publishing company.

Connections: 

Ahmed Ali, Mulk Raj Anand, David Gascoyne, Louis MacNeice, George Orwell, Edith Sitwell, Stephen Spender, Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf.

Network: 
Mulk Raj Anand
Ahmed Ali
Organizations: 
Hogarth Press
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Secondary works: 

Hughes, David, ‘Lehmann, (Rudolph) John Frederick (1907–1987)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39838]