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7 unusual facts about Faber and Faber


Anne Ridler

Anne Barbara Ridler OBE (née Bradby) (30 July 1912 – 15 October 2001) was a British poetess, and Faber and Faber editor, selecting the Faber A Little Book of Modern Verse with T. S. Eliot (1941).

Craig Raine

He became poetry editor at publishers Faber and Faber in 1981, and has been a fellow of New College, Oxford, since 1991, retiring from his post as tutor in June 2010.

Geoffrey Lehmann

Lehmann was the first Australian poet to be published by the London publishing house Faber and Faber.

Gniezno Doors

Monuments of Romanesque Art; The Art of Church Treasures in North-Western Europe, Faber and Faber, 1974, ISBN 0-571-10588-2

Henry Green

Green's work has otherwise received comparatively little critical attention from academics; one of the few academics engaged with Green's work is Jeremy Treglown, author of Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green (Faber and Faber, 2000).

Martin D'Arcy

His major work is The Mind and Heart of Love, published by T. S. Eliot at Faber and Faber in 1945.

White Face

Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds of British Cinema (Faber and Faber, 2005)


A ZBC of Ezra Pound

A ZBC of Ezra Pound (ISBN 0-571-09135-0) is a book by Christine Brooke-Rose published by Faber and Faber in 1971.

Barney Hoskyns

His next book on American music, Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits, was published in March 2009 by Faber and Faber.

Matthew Evans, Baron Evans of Temple Guiting

A bookseller who rose to become managing director and later chairman of the publisher Faber and Faber, Evans also served as a governor of the British Film Institute.

Maurice Gwyer

In fact on Sir Henry Burdett's death in 1920 she inherited the firm that published the Nursing Mirror, and, in conjunction with his All Souls colleague Sir Geoffrey Cust Faber, the Gwyers set up the company that eventually became Faber and Faber.

Shri Purohit Swami

He also worked with W. B. Yeats during 1935 and 1936, on Majorca on the translations in The Ten Principal Upanishads (1938, Faber and Faber).

The Strangest Man

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius is a 2009 biography of quantum physicist Paul Dirac written by British physicist and author, Graham Farmelo, and published by Faber and Faber.


see also

David Pownall

The Dream of Chief Crazy Horse (1973, epic play for children; pub. London: Faber and Faber, 1975)

Friends School, Saffron Walden

Matthew Evans, chairman and former managing director of Faber and Faber Ltd.

Hispano-Moresque ware

Caiger-Smith, Alan, Lustre Pottery: Technique, Tradition and Innovation in Islam and the Western World (Faber and Faber, 1985) ISBN 0-571-13507-2

John D Morton

Jon Savage, England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock (1991), Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-13975-0

Maurice Reckitt

Prospect for Christendom: Essays in Catholic Social Reconstruction (Faber and Faber, 1945) editor, with F. N. Davey, V. A. Demant, E. L. Mascall, T. S. Eliot, Philip Mairet, Patrick McLaughlin, T. M. Heron, Ruth Kenyon, David G. Peck, William G. Peck, Charles Smyth, Cyril E. Hudson, Henry Balmforth, Rosalinde Wilton, P. E. T. Widdrington