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John Lehmann
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Writer, poet and editor of the magazine New Writing
Other names
Rudolph John Frederick Lehmann
Place of birth
Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England
Place of death
Westminster, London
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 to 1946, before founding his own publishing company.
Hughes, David, ‘Lehmann, (Rudolph) John Frederick (1907–1987)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39838]
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© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present
