John Lehmann (1907 – 1987) was an English poet and man of letters. He founded the periodicals New Writing and The London Magazine, and the publishing house of John Lehmann Limited. New Writing and its successors were an important influence on English literature from the mid-1930s through the 1940s. He was also general manager of the Hogarth Press (1938–46), founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. During his time with the company, Lehmann published the work of a generation of new voices and writers, such as W.H. Auden, Julian Bell, Henry Green, George Orwell, Cecil Day Lewis, Richard Eberhart, William Empson, and Stephen Spender.