William Heinemann

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William Heinemann (18 May 18635 October 1920) was the founder of the Heinemann publishing house in London.

He was born in 1863, in Surbiton, Surrey and died in London in 1920.

He founded his publishing house in Covent Garden in 1890. The company introduced many translations of the classics in to Great Britain.

He bequeathed funds to the Royal Society of Literature to establish a literary prize, the W. H. Heinemann Award, given from 1945 to 2003.

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