John Lehmann

Petra Rau (University of East Anglia)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of York), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

Born 2 Jun 1907
Died 7 Apr 1987
Activity 1928-1987

Places

Born in England
Active in England

Activities

Primary

Autobiographer
Editor
Poet

Resources

Lehmann's Works

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John Lehmann was one of the most eminent and perspicacious literary editors of the mid-twentieth century. His wartime periodical

Penguin New Writing

was one of the few successful literary forums for poetry, essays and shorter fiction while his careful post-war editorship revived interest in a number of classic European writers.

John Lehmann was born on June 2nd 1907, in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, as the fourth child and only son of Rudolph Chambers Lehmann, Liberal MP, celebrated Cambridge oarsman, Punch contributor and editor of the Daily News, and Alice Davis, a resolute New Englander, twenty years his junior. He was educated at Summer Fields, which he left with a scholarship for Eton in 1921. Both his time at Eton and, later, Cambridge (he read English at Trinity), he regarded as

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Citation: Rau, Petra. "John Lehmann". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 March 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2681, accessed 26 November 2024.]