Tom Rosenthal

Thomas Gabriel Rosenthal (16 July 1935 – 3 January 2014) was a British publisher and art critic. Early life Thomas Gabriel Rosenthal was born on 16 July 1935 in London, the son of Erwin Isak Jacob Rosenthal (1904–1991), a Hebrew scholar and orientalist, and his wife, Elisabeth Charlotte Rosenthal, née Marx (1907–1996), both refugees from Nazi Germany. His sister was the children's books editor Miriam Hodgson. He was educated at The Perse School in Cambridge, followed by Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he earned a degree in history and English. Career Rosenthal joined the publishing company Thames & Hudson in 1959. He was head of Secker & Warburg from 1971 to 1984 and later Andre Deutsch Publishers.