Henry Holt and Company
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Georg Von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group | |
Founded | 1866 |
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Founder | Henry Holt and Frederick Leypoldt |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | Equitable Building, 120 Broadway, New York City, New York, U.S. |
Distribution | Macmillan (US) Melia Publishing Services (UK)[1] |
Publication types | Books (Hardcover and Paperback) |
Nonfiction topics | Various |
Imprints | Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, Francis Coady, John Macrae, Metropolitan, Times, Godwin, Christy Ottaviano |
Official website | www |
Henry Holt and Company is an American book-publishing company based in New York City. One of the oldest publishers in the United States, it was founded in 1866 by Henry Holt and Frederick Leypoldt.[2] The company publishes in the fields of American and international fiction, biography, history, politics, science, psychology, health, and children's literature. In the U.S., it operates under Macmillan Publishers.
History
The company publishes under several imprints, including Metropolitan Books, Times Books, Owl Books, and Picador. It also publishes under the name of Holt Paperbacks.[3]
The company has published works by renowned authors Erich Fromm, Paul Auster, Hilary Mantel, Robert Frost, Hermann Hesse, Norman Mailer, Herta Müller, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ivan Turgenev, and Noam Chomsky.
From 1951 to 1985, Holt published the magazine Field & Stream.[4][5]
Holt merged with
The educational publishing arm, which retained the Holt, Rinehart and Winston name, was sold to Harcourt.
Book series
- Amateur Studies
- American Science Series[7]
- The American Presidents Series[8]
- English Readings[9]
- Holt Spoken Language Series
- Leisure Hour Series[10]
- Leisure Moment Series
- Library of Foreign Poetry
- The Makers of the Nineteenth Century (General editor: Basil Williams)
See also
References
- ^ "Melia Publishing – List of client publishers". Retrieved 2017-12-27.
- ^ Nancy Lewis Tuten. The Robert Frost Encyclopedia. pg.149
- ^ "Henry Holt". US Macmillan. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
- ^ Opalic, Zoran (2011-10-28). "Hunting, fishing…". iNewsDesign. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
- ^ "Henry Holt Merger". The Wall Street Journal. March 1, 1960. Page 12.
- ^ American Science Series (Henry Holt and Company) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
- ^ "The American Presidents Series". Macmillan. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
- ^ English Readings, seriesofseries.com. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
- ^ The Leisure Hour Series (Henry Holt and Company) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
External links
Media related to Henry Holt and Company at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Henry Holt and Company at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Henry Holt and Company at Library of Congress, with 73 library catalog records