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Lester & Orpen Dennys

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Lester & Orpen Dennys
StatusDefunct
Founded1973
Country of origin Canada
Publication typesBooks

Lester & Orpen Dennys was a Canadian book publishing company.

The company launched in 1973 as Lester & Orpen, and changed its name in 1979 after Canadian publisher Louise Dennys joined the company. Writers who published with the company included Graham Greene, P.D. James, June Callwood, Morley Torgov, P. K. Page, Anne Collins, John Irving, Don DeLillo, George Jonas, Modris Eksteins, Gabrielle Roy, Alberto Manguel, Joy Kogawa and Sandra Birdsell.

The company merged with Key Porter Books in the early 1990s. Dennys subsequently joined the Canadian division of Alfred A. Knopf.