William Heinemann - Sources

Publisher, born in Surbiton, SW Greater London, UK. He founded his publishing house in London in 1890, and established its reputation with the works of Stevenson, Kipling, H G Wells, Galsworthy, Somerset Maugham, and Priestley, as well as publishing translations of major works from mainland European authors.

William Heinemann (18 May 1863 – 5 October 1920) was the founder of the Heinemann publishing house in London.

He was born in 1863, in Surbiton, Surrey and died in London in 1920.

He founded his publishing house in Covent Garden in 1890.

Sources

Linda Marie Fritschner, ‘Heinemann, William (1863–1920)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 15 June 2006