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Jonathan Cape is a London publishing firm founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape (1879–1960), who was head of the firm until his death. Cape and his business partner Wren Howard (1893–1968) set up the publishing house in 1921.
- 1921; 102 years ago
- London, England
- Herbert Jonathan Cape, Wren Howard
- Penguin Random House
Jonathan Cape (born November 15, 1879, London, England—died February 10, 1960, London) was a British publisher who in 1921 cofounded (with George Wren Howard) the firm that bears his name; it became one of the outstanding producers of general and high-quality books in the United Kingdom.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Where books break new ground. At Jonathan Cape our publishing has been setting trends for a century. Our carefully curated list, respected and admired across the globe, ranges from commercial to literary fiction, pioneering graphic novels to award-winning poetry, and rich non-fiction spanning memoir, nature writing and ground-breaking ideas books.
Jul 20, 2017 · In a famous letter to Jonathan Cape, who eventually published the book in 1947, Lowry remains defiant. He was an expert letter writer and often spent more time on these than on his novels.
- Mark Goodall
Oct 20, 2020 · A brilliant talent-spotter, he brought to Jonathan Cape an extraordinary range of literary talent – from Gabriel García Márquez to Philip Roth to Martin Amis to Thomas Pynchon to Tom Wolfe to Ian McEwan – and transformed it into the most exciting publisher in London.
Written in January and February 1958, it was first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 23 March 1959. The story centres on the investigation by the British Secret Service operative James Bond into the gold-smuggling activities of Auric Goldfinger , who is also suspected by MI6 of being connected to SMERSH , the Soviet counter-intelligence ...
Jonathan Cape. Founded in 1921, Jonathan Cape is renowned for its outstanding fiction, non-fiction and poetry, and has more Booker Prize winners than any other imprint. Visit website.
