Stanley Unwin (publisher)

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Sir Stanley Unwin (19 December 1884 – 13 October 1968) was a British publisher, founder of the George Allen and Unwin house in 1914. This published serious and sometimes controversial authors like Bertrand Russell and Mahatma Gandhi.

Unwin lived for some years in Handen Road in Lee in south-east London. His niece was the children's writer Ursula Moray Williams.^[1]

In 1936 J. R. R. Tolkien submitted The Hobbit for publication, and Unwin paid his ten-year-old son Rayner Unwin a few pence to write a report on the manuscript. Rayner's favourable response prompted Unwin to publish the book. Once the book became a success Unwin asked Tolkien for a sequel, which eventually became The Lord of the Rings.

References

↑ Ursula Moray Williams

Robin Denniston, ‘Unwin, Sir Stanley (1884–1968)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 11 Jan 2008

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Works by or about Stanley Unwin (publisher) in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 79399809 LCCN: n82128862 ISNI: 0000 0001 0919 4225 GND: 118763814 SUDOC: 056910177

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Name	Unwin, Stanley
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Short description	British publisher
Date of birth	19 December 1884
Place of birth
Date of death	13 October 1968
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