Peter Owen, Not a Nice Jewish Boy : Memoirs of a Maverick Publisher

Peter Owen, one of the last of the great émigré publishers, recalls his remarkable life and career from his lonely Jewish boyhood in Nazi Germany to maturity as acclaimed London publisher of many distinguished international writers, including Anaïs Nin, Salvador Dalí, Paul Bowles, Yukio Mishima and Anna Kavan, many of whom were personal friends.