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John Lehmann

AKA John Frederick Lehmann

Born: 2-Jun-1907
Birthplace: Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England
Died: 7-Apr-1987
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Gay [1]
Occupation: Poet

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Thrown to the Woolfs


[1] Novelized as In The Purely Pagan Sense.

Father: Rudolph Lehmann
Sister: Beatrix Lehmann (actress, b. 1-Jul-1903, d. 31-Jul-1979)
Sister: Rosamond Lehmann (novelist)

    High School: Eton College
    University: Trinity College, Cambridge University

Author of books:
A Garden Revisited (1931, poetry)
The Noise of History (1934, poetry)
The Sphere of Glass (1944, poetry)
Edith Sitwell (1952, biography)
The Whispering Gallery (1955, memoir)
I Am My Brother (1960, memoir)
Collected Poems (1963, poetry)
The Ample Proposition (1966, memoir)
In My Own Time (1969, memoir, his earlier memoirs combined)
The Reader at Night (1974, poetry)
Virginia Woolf and Her World (1975, biography)
In The Purely Pagan Sense (1976, novel)
Thrown to the Woolfs: Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press (1978)
Rupert Brooke (1980, biography)
New and Selected Poems (1985, poetry)





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