Jon Linden Wynne-Tyson (1924–2020) was a British author, publisher, Quaker, activist, and pacifist. He also authored volumes on animal rights and vegetarianism.
Born in Hampshire, England, Wynne-Tyson listed as a conscientious objector upon the outbreak of World War II. He did not fight in the war and instead worked as a market gardener with other pacifists and Quakers.
In 1954, Wynne-Tyson established the independent publishing company Centaur Press. He championed lost masterpieces and original works on obscure subjects such as letterboxes’ history. He also released works on such issues as vegetarianism, animal rights, and similar philosophy.
Wynne-Tyson published the play Marvellous Party (1989) and later adapted it into a BBC radio play in 1994. He also wrote Food for a Future: The Ecological Priority of a Humane Diet (1975,) arguing that humans are naturally vegetarian. The book was later republished as Food for a Future: The Complete Case for Vegetarianism (1979.)
Wynne-Tyson’s autobiography is Finding the Words: A Publishing Life (2004.)
More: Wikipedia • READ: Works by Jon Wynne-Tyson
The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.
—Jon Wynne-Tyson
Topics: Memory
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
Lloyd Alexander American Writer
Ouida (Maria Louise Rame) English Novelist
Arthur Eddington English Astronomer
Laurence Housman English Novelist, Dramatist
Annie Besant British-born Indian Theosophist
E. V. Lucas English Author
John Major British Head of State
Al Alvarez English Critic, Poet, Novelist
Christopher Hitchens Anglo-American Social Critic
Sidney Lumet American Filmmaker