Lovat Dickson

Lovat Dickson (1902-1987) was a writer and publisher, and the first Canadian to play a key role in British publishing at Macmillan. In addition to several autobiographies, he wrote biographies of Grey Owl, Richard Hillary, Radclyffe Hall, and H.G. Wells. The Wynford edition is introduced by Neville Thompson, author of Canada and the End of the Imperial Dream: Beverley Baxter's Reports from London through War and Peace, 1936-1960 (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Lovat Dickson (1902-1987) was a writer and publisher, and the first Canadian to play a key role in British publishing at Macmillan. In addition to several autobiographies, he wrote biographies of Grey Owl, Richard Hillary, Radclyffe Hall, and H.G. Wells. The Wynford edition is introduced by Neville Thompson, author of Canada and the End of the Imperial Dream: Beverley Baxter's Reports from London through War and Peace, 1936-1960 (Oxford University Press, 2013). See less