Rupert Hart-Davis

Rupert Hart-Davis
Born(1907-08-28)28 August 1907
Died8 December 1999(1999-12-08) (aged 92)
Spouses
(m. 1929; div. 1933)
Catherine Comfort Borden-Turner
(m. 1933, divorced)
Ruth Simon Ware
(m. 1964; died 1967)
June Williams
(m. 1968)
Children3, including Duff and Adam
RelativesDeirdre Hart-Davis (sister)
Duff Cooper (uncle)
Alfred Cooper (grandfather)

Sir Rupert Charles Hart-Davis (28 August 1907 – 8 December 1999) was an English publisher and editor. He founded the publishing company Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd. As a biographer, he is remembered for his Hugh Walpole (1952), as an editor, for his Collected Letters of Oscar Wilde (1962), and, as both editor and part-author, for the Lyttelton/Hart-Davis Letters.

Working at a publishing firm before the Second World War, Hart-Davis began to forge literary relationships that would be important later in his career. Founding his publishing company in 1946, Hart-Davis was praised for the quality of the firm's publications and production; but he refused to cater to public tastes, and the firm eventually lost money. After relinquishing control of the firm, Hart-Davis concentrated on writing and editing, producing collections of letters and other works which brought him the sobriquet "the king of editors".