| Intro | Poet, author, publisher, bookseller, native plant nursery owner |
| A.K.A. | George Thurston Leite, George T. Leite |
| Was |
Businessperson Printer Poet Author Bookseller Publisher Entrepreneur |
| From | United States of America |
| Type |
Business Journalism Literature |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 20 December 1920, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, U.S.A. |
| Death |
6 August 1985, Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, California, U.S.A. (aged 64 years) |
George Leite was an American author, poet, publisher, bookstore, gallery, and native plants nursery owner active in California’s San Francisco Bay Area starting in the 1940s. Born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1920, he was raised in the then Portuguese-American enclave of San Leandro, California and died in 1985 in Walnut Creek, California.
Leite was the founder of daliel’s Bookstore (stylized with a lowercase ‘d’) at 2466 Telegraph Avenue between Dwight and Haste Streets in Berkeley, where he published Circle Magazine and published books, pamphlets, and audio recordings under the Circle Editions imprint. Many of the important regional writers of the period such as Kenneth Rexroth were published by him, and daliel’s Gallery was the site of concerts by composer Harry Partch and exhibitions by artist Jean Varda. He lived for a while near Henry Miller’s cabin on the Big Sur coast.