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Max Reinhardt
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Born
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1915-11-30
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30 November 1915
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Died
| 19 November 2002
(2002-11-19)
(aged 86)
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Occupation
| Publisher
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Employer
| The Bodley Head
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Spouses
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(
m.
1947;
div.
1955)
Joan MacDonald
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m.
1957)
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Max Reinhardt
(30 November 1915 ? 19 November 2002) was a British
publisher
. He published
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
,
George Bernard Shaw
and
Graham Greene
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Biography
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Max Reinhardt was born on 30 November 1915 in
Istanbul
to Austrian parents. He attended an English High School in Istanbul. His parents set up an import and export business in London which he headed. After the
Second World War
he took a course in international relations at the
London School of Economics
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During a bridge game, he met A. S. Frere, who inspired him to change his import and export business into a publishing house. Reinhardt then bought HFL Publishers, a company that published Accounting textbooks.
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Max Reinhardt's first author was
George Bernard Shaw
, who reissued his romantic correspondence with the actress
Ellen Terry
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In 1957, Reinhardt and a banker partner bought
the Bodley Head
publishing house, where Reinhardt built a strong editing team, naming
Graham Greene
as director. Greene published his own novels there. They also published
Alistair Cooke
,
Maurice Sendak
,
William Trevor
and
Eric Ambler
.
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Bodley Head was purchased by
Random House
, and both Reinhardt and Greene resigned. Reinhardt kept ownership of HFL, renaming it Reinhardt Books which was later bought by
Viking Press
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He died on 19 November 2002.
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References
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Further reading
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- Lambert, J W,. and Ratcliffe, M., 1987:
The Bodley Head 1887-1987
. The Bodley Head: London.
ISBN
0-370-30949-9
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