11 September 2023
In 1938, George Weidenfeld arrived in London as an Austrian-Jewish refugee. He could barely speak the language. He had no family in England. No friends. No money. He was just 19 years old.
Thirty-five years later, George Weidenfeld's reputation as a publisher of important works of fiction and non-fiction was second to none. His company Weidenfeld & Nicolson had released classics such as Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Mary McCarthy's The Group, Isaiah Berlin's The Hedgehog and the Fox, and Saul Bellow's Herzog. Two of his authors had recently won the Booker Prize. His current list included Tom Wolfe, Edna O'Brien, Norman Mailer and Margaret Drabble.
