David Geoffrey Bles (5 September 1886 – 3 April 1957) was a British publisher, with a reputation for spotting new talent.
B. Phillips, Cecil Street, Mabel Lethbridge, Halliday Sutherland, Vicki Baum,[5] and Maria von Trapp.
[1] Lewis's key religious work, The Problem of Pain, was published jointly by Bles and Centenary Press in 1940, as were his Beyond Personality: The Christian Idea of God (1944) and The Great Divorce: A Dream (1945).
[2] Bles published on his own Lewis' The Screwtape Letters (1942), The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), and the next four in the Narnia series up to The Horse and his Boy (1954).
[9] His great nephew is the writer William Mortimer Moore whose Free France's Lion: The Life of Philippe Leclerc, de Gaulle's Greatest General was published in 2011 and is dedicated to Bles.