James Douglas (1867–1940) was a British critic, newspaper editor and author.
Douglas edited The Star from 1908 to 1920, then the Sunday Express until 1931.Randolph Spencer Churchill and Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: 1914-1916, p.128 He was a supporter of censorship, and called for several books to be banned, most notably The Well of Loneliness.James Armstrong (1931) "The Publication, Prosecution and Re-Publication of James Hanley's Boy", p.353 The Library (1997) s6-19 (4):351-362. He was mocked by P. R. Stephensen and Jack Lindsay in The Sink of Solitude (1928).
Douglas made a negative review of John Worby's 1937 memoir, The Other Half, and urged banning it as a "dangerous book." The review boosted sales, and dust jackets on later editions included a quote by Douglas in both the UK and United States.
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