This is an accepted version of this page Thomas Werner Laurie (1866–1944) was a London publisher of books that were avant-garde in some cases, racy in others.
He published The Jungle by Upton Sinclair when that work had been rejected for publication in England by other publishers, and Sinclair stayed with Laurie for many years in gratitude, publishing World's End and other novels in Sinclair's Lanny Budd series.
Other books issued in the firm's eclectic publishing programme included The Encyclopaedia of Sex and The History of Torture through the Ages.
[1] In 1946, after Laurie's death, his publishing firm was purchased by the financier Clarence Hatry and it continued to operate in premises above Hatchards booksellers at 187 Piccadilly, London,[1] with George Greenfield as the manager.
[1] Their daughter, Joan Werner Laurie (1920–1964), edited She, a periodical for women.