John Simon Rodker

Geboren im Jahre 1894 - Cheetham Rd., Manchester, UK Verstorben im Jahre 1955 , Alter: 61 Jahre alt

Eltern

• David Rodker 1872-1945
• Leah Jacobson 1862-

Heiraten und Kinder

• In einer Beziehung mit Sonia Cohen 1892-1987, ihre Kinder
  • Joan Michelle Rodker 1915-2010
• Verheiratet im Jahre 1918 mit Mary Franeis Butts 1890-1937, geschieden im Jahre 1927, ihre Kinder
  • Camilla Elizabeth Rodker 1920-2007
• Verheiratet im Jahre 1936 mit Barbara Stanger McKenzie-Smith 1902-1996, geschieden, ihre Kinder
  • John Paul Morrison 1937
• Verheiratet mit Marianne Rais †1984

Vorfahren Samuel Rodker †1881   Simma Grunlen †1922     |   |     |   David Rodker 1872-1945   Leah Jacobson 1862- |   | | John Simon Rodker 1894-1955

Geschwister John Simon Rodker 1894-1955 Peter Rodker 1897-

Notizen

PROFESSION: Publisher, translator, writer, poet

BIOGRAPHY: Was conscientious objector of The First World War. (Was in prison 1917)
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John's birth certificate shows "Simon, son of David Solomon and Leah (Jacobson) Solomon"
1911 census shows him as "Jacob"
Wrote column for French publication for years
Received Légion d'Honneur from French Government.
Famous photo of John with James Joyce, Sylvia and Cyprian Beach at "Shakespeare and Co." in Paris, 1921

SUMMARY (A. Crozier): John Rodker (1894-1955), born in Manchester, moved with his family (his father was a corset-maker) to London when he was six. Educated at Board School and, to the age of 14, at the Jews Free School, he later took evening classes in French, German and science and became a clerk. He avoided military service in the war and in 1919 succeeded Pound as London editor of The Little Review. He set up the Ovid Press, publishing Eliot's Ara Vos Prec, Pound's Mauberley, his own Hymns, and collections of drawing by Lewis, Gaudier-Brzeska and others. He remained a publisher, bringing out Pound's Cantos 17-26, Le Corbusier, Valery, and the German-language edition of Freud's works. He was a translator from the French.