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David Garnett (1892-1981) started as a bookseller in London in the 1920s and went on to become a partner in the Nonesuch Press between 1923 and 1935. In the 1930s he also worked as a literary editor and contributor to the New Statesman and he worked as a historian for the government during World War Two. He was also famous as an author and published a large number of novels throughout these years. He is well known for his association with the Bloomsbury group - as a conscientious objector in the First World War, he lived at Charleston with the painters Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, and he later went on to marry their daughter Angelica. He was made a CBE in 1952.