Anthony Blond

Anthony Bernard Blond (20 March 1928 – 27 February 2008) was a British publisher and author, who was involved with several publishing companies over his career, including several he established himself, or in partnerships, from 1952.

Biography Born in Sale, Cheshire, Blond was the elder son of Major Neville Blond CMG, OBE, who was a cousin of Harold Laski. His mother was from a Manchester Sephardic Jewish family. His parents divorced when Blond was a child and Blond was educated at Eton, where he was bullied. he lost it by indulging too much in the distractions of an undergraduate life: "the joys of drink, people, parties, fancy waistcoats, foreign travel and falling in love – mostly with young men." but set up his own firm in 1952, Anthony Blond (London) Ltd, in partnership with the future novelist Isabel Colegate

Reported to have given the first chance to some 70 writers, Blond was particularly close to the novelist Simon Raven. as Blond & Briggs in 1960, an informal arrangement that lasted until 1979 when Briggs retired the marriage lasted until 1960, and Charlotte eventually married the political journalist Peter Jenkins. After a long relationship with Andrew McCall, Blond, who was bisexual,

Anthony Blond died aged 79 in hospital in Limoges, France, near the home he had shared with his wife for 25 years. Blond was described in Michael Barber's Guardian obituary as "the last of the eponymous Jewish publishers whose chutzpah made publishing hum in the days before the conglomerates". The Great Society Handbooks to the Modern World

Books written The Publishing Game, London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. Family Business, London: Andre Deutsch. 1978. The Book Book, London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. A Scandalous History of the Roman Emperors, London: Quartet Books Limited, 1994. Jew Made in England, London, Timewell Press, 2004. A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors, London: Robinson Publishing, 2008.