Sir Allen Lane (21 September 1902–7 July 1970) (born Allen Lane Williams), was a British publisher who founded Penguin Books bringing high quality, paperback fiction and non-fiction to a mass market. September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years). ... 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 177 days remaining. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... Penguin Books is a British publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. ... Paperback may refer to a kind of book binding by which papers are simply folded without cloth or leather and bound - usually with glue rather than stitches or staples - into a thick paper cover; or to a book with this type of binding. ...

Allen Lane Williams was born in Bristol to Camilla (nee Lane) and Samuel Williams and studied at Bristol grammar school. In 1919 he joined the publishing company Bodley Head as an apprentice to his uncle and founder of the company John Lane. In the process, he and the rest of his family changed their surname to Lane to retain the childless John Lane's company as a family firm. He rose quickly in the business becoming managing editor in 1925 following the death of his uncle. Bristol is an English city and county and one of the three administrative centres of South West England (the others being Plymouth and Exeter). ... Bodley Head has been, since 1987, an imprint of Random House. ... John Lane (March 14, 1854 - February 2, 1925) was a British publisher. ...

After conflict with the board of directors who were weary at first,–for fear of being sued–of publishing James Joyce's controversial book Ulysses, Lane left in 1936 to set up Penguin Books. On a train journey back from visiting Agatha Christie in 1934 Lane had found himself on a station platform with nothing available worth reading. He conceived of paperback editions of literature of proven quality which would be cheap enough to be sold from vending machines. The venture was extremely successful and he expanded into other areas such as the Penguin Classics in 1945. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, widely considered as a major writer of the 20th century. ... The first edition of Ulysses was published in 1922. ... Penguin Books is a British publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. ... Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, DBE (September 15, 1890 – January 12, 1976), was a British crime fiction writer. ... Soda pop and snack machines A vending machine is a machine that dispenses merchandise when a customer deposits money sufficient to purchase the desired item (as opposed to a shop, where personnel is required for every purchase). ...

He married Lettice Lucy Orr on 28 June 1941 and had three daughters. He was knighted in 1952. In 1965,, during an attempt by the board of directors to oust him, he stole a book's entire print run and burnt it. He retained control but was forced to retire shortly afterwards after being diagnosed with bowel cancer. He died in 1970 at Northwood, Middlesex. (Some entries on this page have been duplicated on August 1. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Diagram of the stomach, colon, and rectum Colorectal cancer includes cancerous growths in the colon, rectum and appendix. ... Northwood is a suburb of London in the London Borough of Hillingdon. ... Middlesex is an area of south-eastern England, it is traditionally regarded as one of the 39 historic counties of England. ...