Other names Rudolph John Frederick Lehmann 1 Date of birth Sunday, June 2, 1907 - 12:00 City of birth Bourne End, Buckinghamshire Country of birth England Date of death Tuesday, April 7, 1987 - 12:00 Location of death Westminster Location London 2 About John Lehmann was a writer, poet and publisher. He was the editor of the hugely influential magazine New Writing (1936-40), which also published South Asian writers such as Ahmed Ali and Mulk Raj Anand. He was managing director for Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press from 1938-46, before founding his own publishing company. Connections Ahmed Ali, Mulk Raj Anand, David Gascoyne, Louis MacNeice, George Orwell, Edith Sitwell, Stephen Spender, Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf. Organizations Hogarth Press Network Mulk Raj Anand Ahmed Ali 3 Secondary works Hughes, David, ‘Lehmann, (Rudolph) John Frederick (1907–1987)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39838]