biography
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Lane, Sir Allen
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originally Allen Lane Williams
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| sex:
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| lived:
| (1902–70)
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| biography:
| Publisher, born in Bristol, SW England, UK. He studied at Bristol, and was apprenticed in 1919 to The Bodley Head publishing house. He resigned as managing director in 1935 in order to form Penguin Books Ltd, where he began by reprinting novels in paper covers at sixpence each, a revolutionary step in the publishing trade. This expanded to other series such as non-fictional Pelicans and children's Puffins. He was knighted in 1952. |
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