Tom Maschler

Thomas Michael Maschler was a British publisher and writer. From 1960, he was influential as the head of publishing company Jonathan Cape over a period of more than three decades. Maschler was noted for instituting the Booker Prize for British, Irish and Commonwealth literature in 1969. He was involved in publishing the works of many notable authors, including Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Heller, Gabriel García Márquez, John Lennon, Ian McEwan, Bruce Chatwin and Salman Rushdie. ^{Tom Maschler, English author and publisher (d. 2020)}

16 August 1933

Born on the same birth date (16 August 1933): Julie Newmar • Reiner Kunze • Stuart Roosa

Born on the same birth day (16 August): Agostino Carracci • Aloísio (footballer, born 1963) • Andrew Rainsford Wetmore • Aparicio Saravia • Bernarr Macfadden • Bonnie Bernstein • Emerson (footballer, born August 1980) • Gabriel Lippmann • Jonatan Johansson (footballer) • Matt Christopher • Matteo Anesi • Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster • R. R. Patil • Russell Brookes • Stan Lazaridis • Suzanne Farrell

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