Editing Max Reinhardt (publisher)

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1915|11|30|df=yes}}
| birth_place =[[Istanbul]], [[Ottoman Empire]] 
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|11|19|1915|11|30|df=yes}}
| death_place =[[London Borough of Richmond upon Thames|Richmond-upon-Thames]], [[London]], England
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| employer = [[The Bodley Head]]
| occupation = [[Publisher]] 
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* {{marriage|[[Margaret Leighton]]|1947|1955|end=div}}
* {{marriage|Joan MacDonald<br />|1957}}
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'''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>{{Cite book |last1=Terry |first1=Dame Ellen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M0yvAAAAIAAJ |title=Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence |last2=Shaw |first2=Bernard |date=1952 |publisher=Max Reinhardt |language=en}}</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>{{cite news |title= Max Reinhardt, 86, Publisher Of Shaw and Solzhenitsyn |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03EED91139F936A15752C1A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&scp=3&sq=Max%20Reinhardt%20died&st=cse |quote=The book publisher Max Reinhardt, who published works by George Bernard Shaw, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn and Graham Greene, died here on Tuesday. He was 86.|work=[[New York Times]]|date=25 November 2002|access-date=7 June 2008}}</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
*Lambert, J W,. and Ratcliffe, M., 1987: ''The Bodley Head 1887-1987''. The Bodley Head: London. {{ISBN|0-370-30949-9}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20030821105849/http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=354179 The Independent: obituary]

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