John Lehmann on a Career in Progress, ‘International Literature'

Poet, critic, biographer, and publisher, Lehmann (b. 1907) was founding Editor of ‘New Writing’. 1946–50, and of ‘London Magazine’, 1954–61; Partner and General Manager of the Hogarth Press, 1938–46, and Founder and General Manager of John Lehmann Ltd, publishers, 1946–52. His publications include ‘Collected Poems’ (1963), ‘A Nest of Tigers’ (1968), and three volumes of autobiography, ‘The Whispering Gallery’ (1955), ‘I Am My Brother’ (1960), and ‘The Ample Proposition’ (1966). His ‘New Writing in Europe’ (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1940) ably reviews the literary culture of the 1930s.