Hill & Wang
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Parent company Farrar, Straus and Giroux | | |
| Founded | 1956 | |
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| Founder | Lawrence Hill and Arthur Wang | |
| Country of origin | United States | |
| Headquarters location | New York City | |
| Publication types | Books | |
| Official website | Hill & Wang | |
Hill & Wang is an American
American history, world history, and politics. It is a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
.
Hill & Wang was founded as an independent publishing house in 1956 by Arthur Wang (1917/18–2005) and Lawrence Hill, who were both working at
Holocaust memoir, Night, which had been turned down by several English-language publishers, publishing it in 1960. They continued to build the Hill & Wang list to include such authors as Roland Barthes, Langston Hughes, and American historians Stanley Kutler and William Cronon.[2]
In 1971, the two sold Hill & Wang to
.The imprint also launched a graphic line, "Novel Graphics," when it published a
United States Constitution
.
Notable authors
- Roland Barthes, Numerous works in translation.
- Elizabeth A. Fenn, Encounters at the Heart of the World, Hill & Wang, 2014. Winner of Pulitzer Prize for History.
- Philip Gura, American Transcendentalism (Hill & Wang, 2007). Nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award
- Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (Hill & Wang, 2007). Finalist for the National Book Award
- Jack London, The Iron Heel (Hill & Wang, 1957, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969).
- William Pfaff, Barbarian Sentiments: How the American Century Ends (Hill & Wang, 1989). Finalist for the National Book Award
- Elie Wiesel, Night (Hill & Wang, 1960, 2006).
References
- ^ Dramabooks (Hill & Wang) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
- New York Times. Retrieved 2008-09-12.
- ^ Henry Raymont, "Farrar, Straus Gets Hill & Wang", The New York Times, 29 September 1971. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
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