George Weidenfeld, Dean Of British Publishers, Dead At 96

After fleeing to the UK from Vienna in 1938, “he founded his publishing house with Nigel Nicolson in 1949 … He published big-name authors from Charles de Gaulle to Pope John Paul II and Henry Kissinger … In 1959, Weidenfeld & Nicolson risked obscenity laws to publish Lolita.”