William Heinemann
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William Heinemann (18 May 1863 – 5 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.
The company logo is based on a woodcut by Sir William Nicholson of the windmill at Rottingdean, Sussex.
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- Linda Marie Fritschner, ‘Heinemann, William (1863–1920)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 15 June 2006
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