Gordon Fraser

Photograph of Gordon Fraser taken by Robert Gaillot "Cette photographie a été faîte dans son appartement de Fitzroy yard. Un dimanche après-midi, en 1974 ou en 1975, je ne me souviens pas exactement."

Gordon Fraser (26 February 1911 – 27 June 1981) was a British publisher and literary editor. Through his eponymous gallery, he is considered to have "revolutionized greetings card design and quality". He was educated at Oundle School and St John's College, Cambridge. A student of F. R. Leavis, he founded, while still an undergraduate, The Minority Press, which published chiefly essays of Leavis and works of other Cambridge students from 1930 to 1933. The role of Fraser and The Minority Press in British literary criticism has been described by Ian Duncan MacKillop. In 1935, Fraser set up a bookshop in Portugal Place, Cambridge, combining it with a small gallery of fine art prints, and in 1938 he introduced his first Christmas greetings cards.

Personal life He married Nancy Katharine Jones in 1936 and had two children, Margaret and Ian.