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John Lehmann

John Lehmann

EnglishJune 2, 1907 – April 7, 1987Literary Memoir

Lehmann was an editor, publisher, and memoirist whose New Writing anthology shaped the literary culture of the 1930s and 1940s. His memoirs are important documents of mid-century literary London.

Works

  • The Whispering GalleryAutobiographical account of the author's literary and intellectual development→
  • I Am My BrotherMemoir exploring the author's relationship with his poet brother Stephen Spender→
  • The Ample Proposition→
  • In the Purely Pagan Sense→
  • A Nest of TigersMemoir about the literary figures and friendships of mid-twentieth-century London→

Related

Virginia Woolf·Rosamond Lehmann·Christopher Isherwood
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