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William Heinemann (18 May 1863 – 5 October 1920) was the founder of the Heinemann
Heinemann (book publisher)

Heinemann is a UK publishing house founded by William Heinemann in Covent Garden, London in 1890. On William Heinemann's death in 1920 a majority stake was purchased by U.S....
 publishing house
Publishing

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 in London
London

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.

He was born in 1863, in Surbiton
Surbiton

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, Surrey
Surrey

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. In his early life he wanted to be a musician, either as a performer or a composer, but, realising that he lacked the ability to be successful in that field, he took a job with the music publishing company of Nicolas Trübner. It was an intensive apprenticeship, and when Trübner died, Heinemann founded his own publishing house in Covent Garden
Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district in London, England, located on the easternmost parts of the City of Westminster and the southwest corner of the London Borough of Camden....
 in 1890.






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William Heinemann (18 May 1863 – 5 October 1920) was the founder of the Heinemann
Heinemann (book publisher)

Heinemann is a UK publishing house founded by William Heinemann in Covent Garden, London in 1890. On William Heinemann's death in 1920 a majority stake was purchased by U.S....
 publishing house
Publishing

Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information – the activity of making information available for public view....
 in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
.

He was born in 1863, in Surbiton
Surbiton

Surbiton, a suburban area of London in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, is a commuter town next to the river Thames, populated with a mixture of Art-Deco courts, spacious and grand late-19th century town houses blending into a sea of semi-detached 20th century housing estates....
, Surrey
Surrey

Surrey is a counties of England in the South East England of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire, and Berkshire....
. In his early life he wanted to be a musician, either as a performer or a composer, but, realising that he lacked the ability to be successful in that field, he took a job with the music publishing company of Nicolas Trübner. It was an intensive apprenticeship, and when Trübner died, Heinemann founded his own publishing house in Covent Garden
Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district in London, England, located on the easternmost parts of the City of Westminster and the southwest corner of the London Borough of Camden....
 in 1890. The company introduced many translations of the classics to Great Britain
Great Britain

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, as well as such distinguished authors as H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells , known by his pen name H. G. Wells, was an England author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre. Wells and Jules Verne are each sometimes referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction"....
, Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson , was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and Travel writing. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, J....
, and Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English author and poet. Born in Mumbai, British India , he is best known for his works of fiction The Jungle Book , Kim , many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King ; and his poems, including Mandalay , Gunga Din , and If? ....
.

He died, unexpectedly, in London
London

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 in 1920. He had no children and his presumptive heir, his nephew John Heinemann, had died in the Great War. Heinemann's share of the company was therefore bought out by F.N. Doubleday
Frank Nelson Doubleday

Frank Nelson Doubleday , known to friends and family as ?Effendi?, was a famous United States of America publisher. His most significant achievement was as founder of the eponymous Doubleday in 1897....
, the New York publisher.

He bequeathed funds to the Royal Society of Literature
Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature is the "senior Literature organisation in United Kingdom". It was founded in 1820 by George IV of the United Kingdom, in order to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent"....
 to establish a literary prize, the W. H. Heinemann Award, given from 1945 to 2003.

The company logo is based on a woodcut by Sir William Nicholson of the windmill at Rottingdean
Rottingdean

Rottingdean is a coastal village next to the town of Brighton and technically within the City status in the United Kingdom of Brighton and Hove, in East Sussex, on the south coast of England....
, Sussex.

Sources

  • Linda Marie Fritschner, ‘Heinemann, William (1863–1920)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
    Dictionary of National Biography

    The Dictionary of National Biography is a standard work of reference on notable figures from History of the United Kingdom, published from 1885....
    , Oxford University Press, 2004


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