William Heinemann

[1] His father Louis Heinemann was a native of Hanover, Germany, who immigrated as a child with his family.

[2] In his early life, the boy Heiemann wanted to be a musician, either as a performer or a composer, but he came to believe that he lacked the ability to be successful in that field.

It also published such contemporary authors as H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, and American poet Sylvia Plath.

[2] On 2 February 1899, Heinemann married Magda Stuart Sindici, a writer who used the pseudonym Kassandra Vivaria, at St. Antonio's Church in Anzio, Italy.

[4] Wedding guests included James Abbott McNeill Whistler, the painter, whose book The Gentle Art of Making Enemies Heinemann had published in 1890.