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.
Hamish Hamilton is a British book publisher, founded eponymously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton (Hamish is the Celtic form).
Hamish Hamilton originally specialized in fiction, and was responsible for publishing a number of American authors in the United Kingdom - including J.D. Hamish Hamilton Law and Hamish Hamilton Medical were started in 1939 but closed during the war. Hamish Hamilton was established in Bloomsbury, London and went on to publish a large number of promising British and American authors, a large number of whom were personal friends and acquaintances of Jamie Hamilton.
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