B. W. Huebsch

Benjamin W. Huebsch
US Passport Photo 1919
Born	March 21, 1876 New York, New York
Died	August 7, 1964 London, England
Nationality	US
Occupation	Publisher
Known for	publishing German emigré authors
Spouse(s)	Alfhild Lamm

Benjamin W. Huebsch (March 21, 1876–August 7, 1964), often known as Ben Huebsch, was an American publisher in New York City in the early 20th Century.

Huebsch was the son of Rabbi Adolphus Huebsch, who had immigrated to the US from Hungary in 1866 and died in New York, 1884. He played violin and studied under composer and pianist Sam Franko.

Beginning work in his older brother's small print shop, which he gradually transformed into a publishing house.

In 1900, Huebsch established the publishing house B.W Huebsch.

He was the first publisher in the United States of: D. H. Lawrence's book Sons and Lovers (1913),James Joyce's Dubliners (1916) and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (1919).

He also published Georges Sorel's Réflexions sur la violence (1908) as Reflections on Violence, translated by T. E. Hulme and published by Huebsch in 1914.

Circa January 1918, B. W. Huebsch published the book The Poets of Modern France by Ludwig Lewisohn, A.M., Litt.D., Professor at the Ohio State University. This is a translation of major French poets into English. Quoting from the Preface: "In every age the critical conservatives have protested in the name of eternal principles which, alas, are not eternal at all."

Huebsch published The Freeman magazine from 1920 to 1924.

The magazine's co-editors were Francis Neilson (a former British MP) and Albert Jay Nock (a Libertarian whose autobiography Memoirs of a Superfluous Man influenced William F. Buckley, Sr. and William F. Buckley, Jr. among others). Neilson's wealthy wife financed the magazine.