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Allen Lane, English publisher, founded Penguin Books (died 1970)
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Allen Lane
British publisher (1902–1970)
Sir Allen Lane was a British publisher who together with his brothers Richard and John Lane founded Penguin Books in 1935, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass market.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Penguin Books
British publishing house
Penguin Books Limited is an English publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers the Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)