Circle Magazine was published from 1945 to 1951 by George Leite

George Leite

George Leite was a California author, poet, publisher and bookstore owner active in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1940s and 1950s. 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,...

, initially with poet Bern Porter

Bern Porter

Bernard Harden "Bern" Porter was an American artist, writer, publisher, performer, and scientist.In 2010 his work was recognized by an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.- Biography :...

. Produced at Leite's Berkeley, California bookstore, Daliel's (always a lowercase 'd'), it featured poetry, prose, criticism and art from many of those whose creative works and their successors would later come to called the San Francisco Renaissance. In addition to the magazine, Circle Editions published contemporary authors such as Albert Cossery

Albert Cossery

Albert Cossery was an Egyptian-born French writer of Greek Orthodox Syrian and Lebanese descent, born in Cairo.- Life :...

 and Henry Miller

Henry Miller

Henry Valentine Miller was an American novelist and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of 'novel' that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is...

(a personal friend of Leite's).