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| | John Lehmann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | John Frederick Lehmann (born Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, June 2, 1907; died London, April 7, 1987) was an English poet and man of letters, and one of the foremost literary editors of the twentieth century, founding the periodicals New Writing and The London Magazine. |
 | | The son of journalist Rudolph Lehmann, and brother of actress Beatrix Lehmann and novelist Rosamond Lehmann, he was educated at Eton and read English at Trinity College, Cambridge, his time at both of which he considered "lost years". |
 | | After a spell as a journalist in Vienna, he returned to England to found the popular periodical in book format, New Writing (1936-1941) which proved of great influence on literature of the period, and an outlet for writers such as Christopher Isherwood and W. |
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