Kindred Spirits - Adrift in Literary London

Informationen zum Autor Jeremy Lewis worked for many years in publishing after leaving Trinity College! Dublin! in 1965. He was a director of Chatto & Windus for ten years! and the deputy editor of the London Magazine from 1990 to 1994. A freelance writer and editor since 1989! he has been the commissioning editor of the Oldie since 1997! and the editor-at-large of the Literary Review since 2004. He has written two volumes of autobiography - Playing for Time and Kindred Spirits (both now available in Faber Finds')! and a third! Grub Street Irregular was published in 2008. He has written biographies of Cyril Connolly! Tobias Smollett and Allen Lane! and a book about the Greene family - Graham Greene's siblings and first cousins - Shades of Greene . Zusammenfassung An autobiography that shows the author starting out, with a mixture of diffidence and self-professed incompetence, on a career in publishing.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Lewis, Lewis Jeremy
• Assisted by: Jerem Lewis (Editor), Jeremy Lewis (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2008
• EAN: 9780571244287
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24428-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies