John Lehmann: A Pagan Adventure

As the creator and editor of "Penguin New Writing" and "The London Magazine", as the partner of the Woolfs at the Hogarth Press, as one of the most distinguished publishers of post-war literature, and as a poet, John Lehmann (1907-1987) was for 50 years at the centre of literature life in England. In this biography, his professional and private lives are brought together. Here are Lehmann's troubled relationships with Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, and his sister Rosamond, as well as his passionate friendships with Michael Redgrave and the dancer Alexis Rassine. Through Lehmann's revealing private journals and correspondence, this re-evaluation of his rich life - Cambridge, 1930s Vienna, London at war - presents a portrait of an extraordinary man who, at last, steps from the footnotes of the literature to which he gave so much.