Michael Joseph (publisher)

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Michael Joseph (26 September 1897 – 15 March 1958) was a British publisher and writer.

He served in the British Army during the first world war, and then embarked on a writing career, his first book being Short Story Writing for Profit (1924).[1]

After a period as a literary agent for Curtis Brown, Joseph founded his own publishing imprint in 1935 as a subsidiary of Victor Gollancz Ltd. Their relations were not always smooth; Joseph bought out Victor Gollancz in 1938 after Gollancz attempted to censor Sir Philip Gibbs's Across the Frontiers on political grounds.[1][2] Among the authors Joseph published were H. E. Bates, C. S. Forester, Monica Dickens, Richard Llewellyn, Joyce Cary, Richard Gordon and Vita Sackville-West.[2]

One of two sons from his marriage to actress Hermione Gingold, Stephen Joseph, became a theatre director. His firm was bought by Pearson PLC in 1985,[3] and became part of the Penguin Group.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Adrian Room, "Joseph, Michael", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Michael Joseph Publishers", The Open University
  3. ↑ "Our history", Pearson
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