[2] He worked briefly as a representative for the Van Nostrand Company before joining the Atlantic Monthly Press in 1950.
[1] As a publisher, he was known for his work with a number of distinguished authors, including four Nobel Prize winners: Miguel Ángel Asturias, Camilo José Cela, Pablo Neruda, and George Seferis.
[1] He is credited with discovering a number of notable American authors, including Katherine Anne Porter, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Brautigan, Richard Ford, and Joseph Heller; he published Ship of Fools, Trout Fishing in America, and Slaughterhouse-Five, among others.
[1] His friendship with Barry Hannah, one of the authors he discovered, led him to purchase a home in Oxford, Mississippi.
[3] Lawrence died on 24 January 1994 in Englewood, Florida of complications from a heart attack.