Andre Deutsch (1917–2000) was a 20th centuryBritishpublisher. He was born in Budapest, Hungary. His small but influential publishing house from the 1950s to the 1980s included books by Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, V. S. Naipaul, Andrew Robinson, Philip Roth and John Updike. Deutsch died on 11 April2000, aged 82. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... Budapest (pronounced ) is the capital city of Hungary and the countrys principal political, industrial, commercial and transportation centre. ... // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning... // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 60s and 70s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, artist, and one of the most prominent members of the Beat Generation. ... Norman Mailer, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American writer and innovator of the nonfictional novel. ... Sir V.S. Naipaul Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, T.C. (born August 17, 1932, in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago), better known as V. S. Naipaul, is a Trinidadian-born British novelist of Hindu heritage and Indo-Trinidadian ethnicity. ... Andrew Robinson. ... Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933) is a Jewish-American novelist who is best known for his sexually-explicit comedic novel Portnoys Complaint (1969) and for his late-90s trilogy comprising the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral (1997), I Married a Communist (1998), and The Human Stain (2000). ... John Updike John Updike (born March 18, 1932) is an American novelist and short story writer born in Reading, Pennsylvania. ... April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
Deutsch's big break came with the von Papen Memoirs, the diary of Hitler's most able diplomat, and he sold serial rights to a Sunday newspaper for £30,000, which made it a bestseller.
Deutsch expected to remain as a consultant, but soon found his presence was not welcome.
AndréDeutsch, publisher, born November 15 1917; died April 10 2000.
AndreDeutsch, the man in question, was a Hungarian-Jewish refugee who had landed a sales job in publishing.
Deutsch and Athill soon chose friendship over love, and when the Hungarian Anglophile scraped together £3,000 to start his own publishing house—he was advised the minimum necessary was £15,000, but was determined to do it nevertheless—he asked Athill to join him at Allan Wingate (a name adopted to forestall anti-German and anti-Semitic sentiment).
Deutsch had the pluck to publish Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead when all the established British houses nervously shied away, but ever scrambling for money, he had brought in backers who were less than ideal.
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