John Lehmann

Other names:

Rudolph John Frederick Lehmann

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

About:

John Lehmann was a writer, poet and publisher. He was the editor of the hugely influential magazine New Writing [1] (1936-40), which also published South Asian writers such as Ahmed Ali [2] and Mulk Raj Anand [3]. He was managing director for Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press [4] from 1938-46, before founding his own publishing company.

Connections:

Ahmed Ali [2], Mulk Raj Anand [3], David Gascoyne [5], Louis MacNeice [6], George Orwell [7], Edith Sitwell [8], Stephen Spender [9], Leonard Woolf [10], Virginia Woolf [11].

Network:

Mulk Raj Anand [12]

Ahmed Ali [13]

Organizations:

Hogarth Press [14]

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]