Peter Mayer
Overview page. Subjects: Bibliography.
(1936– ) US publisher.
At Avon Books in the 1970s, Mayer launched the trade paperback as an alternative to mass-market paperbacks. He brought a more commercial outlook to Penguin...
Hausted, Peter (c. 1605–1644), playwright and Church of England clergyman
in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
September 2004; p ublished online September 2004 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Literary Studies (Plays and Playwrights); Protestantism and Protestant Churches. 796 words.
Hausted, Peter (c. 1605–1644), playwright and Church of England clergyman, was born in Oundle, Northamptonshire. His parentage is uncertain but William Hawsted, a yeoman of Oundle who...
