Ion Courtenay Gill Trewin (13 July 1943 – 8 April 2015) was a British editor, publisher and author.

Biography

Born in London, the son of J. C. Trewin and

Wendy Trewin Wendy Elizabeth Monk (19 July 1915 – 4 January 2000) was an English writer and critic. Publications as Wendy Monk John Gill of Penryn Wendy Monk wrote and published a biography of her great-grandfather, John Gill, a printer and bookbinder ...

(''née'' Monk), Ion Trewin was educated at

Highgate School Highgate School, formally Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate, is a co-educational, fee-charging, private day school, founded in 1565 in Highgate, London, England. It educates over 1,400 pupils in three sections – Highgate Pre-Preparato ...

. He was the literary editor of ''

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'' from 1972 to 1979 and then became an editor with

Hodder & Stoughton Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette.H ...

(for whom he published

Thomas Keneally Thomas Michael Keneally, Officer of the Order of Australia, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor. He is best known for his historical fiction novel ''Schindler's Ark'', the story of Oskar Schindler' ...

's ''

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'' in 1982) until 1992 and

Orion Publishing Group Orion Publishing Group Ltd. is a UK-based book publisher. It was founded in 1991 and acquired Weidenfeld & Nicolson the following year. The group has published numerous bestselling books by notable authors including Ian Rankin, Michael Connell ...

to 2006. He was said to have "an unmatched reputation as a publisher of taste and acumen". He was director of the

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for a decade and was the biographer of the politician

Alan Clark Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark (13 April 1928 – 5 September 1999) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), author and diarist. He served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Tr ...

. Trewin also edited the three volumes of Clark's diaries.

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