Geoffrey Faber

Britain. Faber, an Oxford fellow, set up Faber and Gwyer in 1925, which became Faber and Faber in 1929, and hired T. S. Eliot as an editor, a decision that made the house the leading publisher of modern poetry, from Auden to Heaney and Plath. Steady sales of poetry and later of Lord of the Flies kept it independent. Faber remains one of Britain's best-known independent publishers.