Jeremy Lewis, a former publishers at Collins, Chatto and OUP, is the author of 'Playing for Time' and 'Kindred Spirits' (both published by Collins), as well as biographies of Cyril Connolly, Tobias Smollett and Allen Lane (Pengiun Special). A former deputy editor of the 'London Magazine', he is a contributing editor to 'The Oldie' and the 'Literary Review'.
Jeremy Lewis
After leaving Trinity College, Dublin, in 1965, Jeremy Lewis worked for many years in publishing: he was a director of Chatto and Windus for ten years, and Deputy Editor of the ‘London Magazine’ from 1991 to 1994. A freelance writer and editor, he has written introductory essays to reissues of books by Surtees, Sapper, Roy Fuller, E.W. Hornung, H.G. Wells, Anthony Hope, Mr Pooter and Sinclair Lewis; he contributed an essay on ‘Office Life’ to D.J. Enright’s ‘Fair of Speech’, and edited ‘The Chatto Book of Office Life’. He is currently writing the authorised biography of Cyril Connolly. A committee member of the R.S. Surtees Society and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Jeremy Lewis is married with two daughters and lives near Richmond Park.