Guest, John

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John Guest was born in 1911 in Warrington, Cheshire, and was educated at Fettes, Edinburgh, and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was first employed in the publishing industry as a proof reader and subsequently junior editor for Collins, before serving in an artillery regiment during the war. In 1949 he was appointed literary advisor to the publishing firm Longmans, with a brief to rebuild their general trade list, at which he was very successful. He subsequently held the same position at Penguin Books, after the merger with Longmans in 1972, where he remained until his retirement. A Fellow of the Royal Literary Society, he was the author of Broken Images (1949), a record of his wartime experiences, and also compiled the first anthology of the work of his friend, the poet Sir John Betjeman, entitled The Best of Betjeman (1978). He died in August 1997.

From the guide to the Letters to John Guest, c. 1949-1991, (Reading University: Special Collections Services)

Epithet: of Longmans Green & Co Ltd

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associatedWith Betjeman John 1906-1984 person
associatedWith Challans Eileen Mary 1905-1983 person
associatedWith Ferguson, Robert. person
associatedWith Fry Christopher b 1907 person
associatedWith Glasford, Hugh. person
associatedWith Guest John 1911-1997 person
associatedWith Hartley Leslie Poles 1895-1972 person
associatedWith Hassall Joan 1906-1988 person
associatedWith Houghton Library. corporateBody
associatedWith King Francis Henry b 1923 person
associatedWith Nicolson Harold George 1886-1968 person
associatedWith Plomer William Charles Franklyn 1903-1973 person
associatedWith Renault Mary person
associatedWith Storey David 1933- person
associatedWith Thomas A. Edison, Inc. corporateBody
associatedWith Vidal, Gore, 1925- person
associatedWith Whistler Laurence b 1912 person
associatedWith Wilkin, David. person
associatedWith Wilson A. N. 1950- person
associatedWith Wilson Mary Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx person
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Publishers and publishing
Authors and publishers
Authors, English
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