biography
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| lived:
| (1900–88)
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| biography:
| Publisher, the founder of the London publishing house of Hamish Hamilton Ltd, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He spent his childhood in Scotland, studied at Cambridge, and joined Harper & Brothers, the New York publishers, as London manager in 1926. In 1931 he founded his own firm, with the support of Harpers, who helped him build up a particularly strong list of US writers. In 1965 he sold his company to Thomson Publications Ltd, who later sold it to Viking-Penguin. He retired as chairman in 1981. |
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