HEINEMANN, WILLIAM (1863-192o), British pub lisher, was born on May 18, 1863, at Surbiton and educated pri vately. He first studied music but, realizing that he could not hope to be in the front rank of musicians, started a publishing business. Amongst his earliest publications were Whistler's Gentle Art of Making Enemies (189o) and Heinemann's International Library, edited by Edmund Gosse. In 1897 he opened the series of Short Histories of the Literatures of the World with Gilbert Murray's Ancient Greek Literature. Heinemann's most conspicuous service to literature probably lies in his introduction to the English read ing public of Maeterlinck, Ibsen, Bjornson, Tolstoy, Couperus and others. He died in London on Oct. 5, 1920.
See William Heinemann: A Memoir, ed. F. W. Whyte (1928) .