Ion Courtenay Gill Trewin (13 July 1943 – 8 April 2015) was a British editor, publisher and author.
Biography
Born in London, the son of
J. C. Trewin and
Wendy Trewin
Wendy Elizabeth Monk (19 July 1915 – 4 January 2000) was an English writer and critic.
Publications as Wendy Monk
John Gill of Penryn
Wendy Monk wrote and published a biography of her great-grandfather, John Gill, a printer and bookbinder of ...
(''née'' Monk), Ion Trewin was educated at
Highgate School.
He was the literary editor of ''
The Times
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'' from 1972 to 1979 and then became an editor with
Hodder & Stoughton (for whom he published
Thomas Keneally
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's ''
Schindler's Ark'' in 1982) until 1992 and
Orion Publishing Group to 2006. He was said to have "an unmatched reputation as a publisher of taste and acumen".
He was director of the
Man Booker Prize for a decade and was the biographer of the politician
Alan Clark
Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark (13 April 1928 – 5 September 1999) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), author and diarist. He served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Tr ...
.
Trewin also edited the three volumes of Clark's diaries.
References
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1943 births
2015 deaths
Deaths from cancer in England
English biographers
English book editors
People educated at Highgate School
Publishers (people) from London
British publishers (people)
20th-century English businesspeople