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Victor Gollancz
1893–1967
A bold British publisher who treated books as a way to change the world, he became known as much for his humanitarian campaigning as for the authors he championed. His life joined publishing, politics, and public conscience in a way that still stands out.
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The School and the World
by Victor Gollancz, D. C. (David Churchill) Somervell
About the author
Born in London in 1893, Sir Victor Gollancz was a British publisher, writer, and humanitarian. He founded the publishing house Victor Gollancz Ltd in 1928 and became one of the most recognizable figures in 20th-century British publishing.
He is especially remembered for backing left-wing causes and for helping to establish the Left Book Club in the 1930s, which brought political books to a wide readership during a tense period in Europe. Sources also consistently describe him as a committed campaigner whose public work extended beyond publishing into humanitarian activism.
Gollancz died in London in 1967. What makes him memorable is the unusual mix of energy and conviction in his career: he was not only interested in producing books, but in using them to move public opinion and encourage moral debate.