Jon Linden Wynne-Tyson (6 July 1924 – 26 March 2020) was an English author, publisher,[1][2] Quaker, activist and pacifist, who founded Centaur Press in 1954.

[6] His mother was Esmé Wynne-Tyson, a former child actress and writer,[7] and his father was Linden Charles Tyson, an officer in the Royal Air Force.

[2] He attended Brighton College, but left at age 15, when his father could not longer afford the school fees after rejoining the RAF, on the outbreak of World War II.

[11] The company expanded into humane education, under the imprint, Kinship Library,[6] releasing titles on topics such as vegetarianism, animal rights, and related philosophy.

[14][15] Reviewing the book in the New Scientist magazine, science writer Colin Tudge commented that the "man-is-a-vegetarian thesis is ecological unnecessary, and biology unsound", but that vegetarians do have worthwhile things to say.