J. R. Ackerley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

J. R. Ackerley

English writer and editor

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1896

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 04-Jun-1967

Profession: writer, poet, journalist, novelist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Joe Randolph "J.
R." Ackerley (4 November 1896 – 4 June 1967) was a British writer and editor.
Starting with the BBC the year after its founding in 1927, he was promoted to literary editor of The Listener, its weekly magazine, where he served for more than two decades.
He published many emerging poets and writers who became influential in Great Britain.
He was openly homosexual, a rarity in his time when homosexual activity was forbidden by law and socially ostracized. Ackerley's extramarital half-sister was Sally Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster.