Max Reinhardt (publisher)

Template:Use dmy dates Template:One source Template:Infobox person Max Reinhardt (30 November 1915 – 19 November 2002) was a British publisher. He published Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, George Bernard Shaw and Graham Greene.<ref name=nytobit/>

Biography

Max Reinhardt was born on 30 November 1915 in Istanbul to Austrian parents. He attended an English High School in Istanbul. His parents set up an import and export business in London which he headed. After the Second World War he took a course in international relations at the London School of Economics.<ref name=nytobit/> During a bridge game, he met A. S. Frere, who inspired him to change his import and export business into a publishing house. Reinhardt then bought HFL Publishers, a company that published Accounting textbooks.<ref name=nytobit/>

Max Reinhardt's first author was George Bernard Shaw, who reissued his romantic correspondence with the actress Ellen Terry.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In 1957, Reinhardt and a banker partner bought the Bodley Head publishing house, where Reinhardt built a strong editing team, naming Graham Greene as director. Greene published his own novels there. They also published Alistair Cooke, Maurice Sendak, William Trevor and Eric Ambler.<ref name=nytobit/> Bodley Head was purchased by Random House, and both Reinhardt and Greene resigned. Reinhardt kept ownership of HFL, renaming it Reinhardt Books which was later bought by Viking Press.<ref name=nytobit/>

He died on 19 November 2002.<ref name=nytobit>Template:Cite news</ref>

Further reading

• Lambert, J W,. and Ratcliffe, M., 1987: The Bodley Head 1887-1987. The Bodley Head: London. Template:ISBN

External links

• The Independent: obituary

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