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Tom Maschler dies at 87
Dan Franklin pays tribute halt charismatic preceding Cape publisher
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Tom Maschler, son of a distinguished Jewish publisher, was born in Berlin in 1932 and came to England with his parents in 1939. After Leighton Park School, having turned down a place at Oxford, he worked on a kibbutz and as a tour guide, hitch-hiked round America and did a brief stint of National Service before getting himself discharged on health grounds. He then worked for various publishers: André Deutsch, whom he left because André wouldn’t increase his wages of six pounds to eight pounds a week, MacGibbon and Kee, where he wasn’t allowed to publish Alan Sillitoe’s Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, and Penguin. In 1960 he became Literary Director of Jonathan Cape only a month after Cape himself had died.
There he did what other gifted literary publishers have done. He used the invaluable backlist as a springboard to revitalise Cape’s slightly faded glory. Having inherited such distinguished authors as Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O’Neill, Malcolm Lowry, C.
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Maschler, Tom--John Osborne, Doris Lessing, Kenneth Tynan, and others.
Description
- Typescript contributions to 'Declaration'
- ink on paper
a collection of polemical essays edited by Tom Maschler, comprising:
Doris Lessing, 'On Mislaying One's Humanist Tradition', two versions, both with autograph corrections in blue ink, altogether 66 pages
Colin Wilson, 'Beyond the Outsider', two versions, comprising a preliminary draft extensively revised in blue ink and a final draft with scattered corrections and revisions in blue and black ink, altogether 63 pages
John Osborne, 'They Call it Cricket', extensive revisions in blue ink and pencil, 23 pages, foolscap
John Wain, 'Along the Tightrope', extensive revisions in blue ink, 33 pages, with a preliminary outline of the essay (1 page) and letter by Tom Maschler to Wain (8 April 1957, 2 pages)
Kenneth Tynan, 'Theatre and Living', corrections in blue ink, 27 pages, with a report on possible libels (1 page) and response by Tynan (1 page)
Bill Hopkins, 'Ways Without a Precedent', three versions, comprising a preliminary draft with corrections and comments in pencil by Tom Maschler, a revised text, with autograph revisions in blue ink, a final revised text, incorporating some of the in