(Rudolph) John (Frederick) Lehmann - Poets in Poems from New Writing 1936-1946 (1946)

Writer and publisher, born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, SC England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and founded the periodical New Writing (1936–41). He was managing director of the Hogarth Press, and with his sister, Rosamond, ran John Lehmann Ltd (1946–53). In 1954 he inaugurated the London Magazine, which he edited until 1961. His works include Forty Poems (1942), Virginia Woolf and her World (1975), and Rupert Brooke (1980).

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 joining Leonard and Virginia Woolf as managing director of Hogarth Press between 1938 and 1946 he created his own firm John Lehmann Ltd with his sister Rosamond, publishing new works by authors such as Sartre and Stendhal, and discovering talents like Thom Gunn and Laurie Lee.

Poets in Poems from New Writing 1936-1946 (1946)

Walter Allen - Georg Anders - Louis Aragon - Theresa Ashton - Robin Atthill - W. Auden - Donald Bain - George Barker - Joan Barton - Earle Birney - Charles Brasch - Vwadiswav Bronievski - J. Bronowski - Jocelyn Brooke - Anthony Brown - Harry Brown - Norman Cameron - Demetrios Capetanakis - André Chamson - Alex Comfort - John Cornford - Maurice James Craig - Allen Curnow - R. Currey - Clifford Dyment - Odysseus Elytis - Roy Fuller - David Gascoyne - Robert Graves - Bernard Gutteridge - Norman Hampson - Arthur Harvey - John Heath-Stubbs - Hamish Henderson - Peter Hewett - Gillian Hughes - Pierre Jean Jouve - Laurie Lee - John Lehmann - Alun Lewis - C. Day Lewis - Lawrence Little - Federico García Lorca - David Luke - Louis MacNeice - H. Mallalieu - Ewart Milne - Nicholas Moore - Vitĕslav Nezval - William Plomer - Pantelis Prevelakis - F. Prince - Henry Reed - Anne Ridler - Michael Riviere - Alan Ross - May Sarton - George Seferis - Jaroslav Seifert - Edith Sitwell - Stephen Spender - W. Stewart - Randall Swingler - A. Tessimond - Dunstan Thompson - Terence Tiller - Robert Waller - Diana Witherby - L. Yates - Peter Yates