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 acmillan is
the new face of a company with a rich history in the publishing industry.
The adult trade collection comes from a distinctive conglomerate of leading
publishing imprints. Macmillan’s other primary focuses are on educating the
leaders and thinkers of tomorrow with its college and academic titles, and
magazines and journals.
For a brief history of Macmillan, click here.
History
Macmillan in the US is a group of publishing companies in the United States
held by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck,
which is based in Stuttgart, Germany. Our American publishers include
Farrar Straus and Giroux, Henry Holt & Company, W.H. Freeman and Worth
Publishers, Palgrave Macmillan, Bedford/St.
Martin’s, Picador, Roaring Brook Press, St. Martin’s Press, Tor
Books, and Macmillan Higher Education. For information on these companies,
please see the below.
Trade
Founded in 1952 by Macmillan in London, St. Martin's Press was for many
years primarily a distributor of Macmillan books. However, particularly
during the last 30 years, St. Martin’s grew rapidly as a publisher in its
own right, finally becoming one of the seven largest publishers in America. Some of SMP’s most successful authors
include: James Herriot, Rosamunde Pilcher, Dan Brown,
Thomas Harris, Stephen Coonts, and Janet Evanovich. From their home in the Flatiron Building in
New York, St. Martin’s publishes books under five imprints: St. Martin’s Press, Griffin, Minotaur, Thomas Dunne Books, and
Truman Talley Books.
In December of 1986, SMP acquired Tor (the
leading publisher of Sci-Fi/Fantasy) which is now its own separate company.
For the past 15 years in a row, Tor has won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Publisher. They also publish
children’s books for ages 10-12 under the StarScape imprint and books for children 12 and
above under the Tor Teen imprint.
Henry Holt and Company was founded in
1866. Holt was acquired by Holtzbrinck in November 1985, and is one of the
oldest publishers in the United States. In addition to the Henry Holt
imprint, the company publishes books under a number of other imprints.
Metropolitan Books established in 1995
publishes fiction and non-fiction. Times Books launched in 2001, is the
result of an innovative
co-publishing agreement between Holt and
The New York Times; its list focuses on science, business, and
current events. Holt Paperback publishes much of the company’s non-fiction
in paperback. Picador USA also publishes much of the company’s fiction in
paperback. Throughout its history, Holt has published such important
writers as Robert Frost, Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux was founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus. FSG was acquired
by Holtzbrinck in November, 1994. The company is known especially for its
literary fiction, but also publishes quality titles in a range of adult,
children’s, and academic subject areas. FSG has an excellent reputation for
publishing award-winning quality literature and is acknowledged to be one
of the leading literary houses in the U.S. Distinguished authors
include Tom Wolfe, Scott Turow, Susan Sontag,
Michael Cunningham, Alice McDermott, and Jonathan Franzen.
FSG authors have won numerous National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prizes and 21
Nobel Prizes in Literature. Recent FSG Pulitzer Prize winning books
include Middlesex
by Jeffery Eugenides and Moy Sand and Gravel by
Paul Muldoon
In 1995, Picador was launched as a
literary imprint, publishing both hardcovers and trade paperbacks. In 1999,
Picador began publishing trade paperbacks with FSG,
and a year later with Holt as well as SMP. Today, Picador is the literary
paperback publisher for the Macmillan group in America.
In 2001, Audio Renaissance was acquired by
Holtzbrinck. Prior to that, St. Martin’s Press was
the distributor for Audio Renaissance titles. The company recently
changed its name to Macmillan Audio. Macmillan Audio records the best of
fiction and nonfiction available from FSG, Henry Holt, Picador, SMP/Tor
Books in cassette, CD and digital formats.
In 1994, the Anne Garrels title audio Naked in
Baghdad won the 2004 Audie Award for Best
Narration by Author or Authors.
Palgrave Macmillan is a global crossmarket publisher. Palgrave Macmillan’s trade list is
comprised of serious non-fiction representing the best thinking and
research in the core areas of Politics, Business and History along with
Current Affairs titles across a range of subjects. Palgrave Macmillan trade
titles have been widely acclaimed as books that have transformed the
national dialogue and include such prominent authors as John Dean, Juan
Cole, Kenneth Roman, Abe Foxman, Walid Phares, General Wesley
Clark, General Tony Zinni and many others.
College & Academic
Established in 1981, Bedford/St. Martin's is a college publisher
specializing in the humanities. It is the largest publisher of textbooks
for college English courses, as well as a leading publisher in the disciplines of history, communications, business
and technical writing, political science, and music. A number of
other best-selling texts in the BSM list: Axelrod & Cooper’s St. Martin’s Guide to Writing,
Kegley & Wittkop’s World Politics and Kirzner & Mandell’s Patterns for Writing.W.H. Freeman was
founded in 1946 by William H. Freeman, who had been a salesman and editor
at Macmillan, Freeman's first book was General
Chemistry (written by the late Nobel
laureate Linus Pauling). That pioneering text revolutionized the
chemistry curriculum and set the high standard of book production that
established Freeman as the premier science publisher. Freeman titles
that have become the leading texts in their field include David Moore’s The Basic Practice of Statistics,
Lubert Stryer’s Biochemistry and Peter Atkin’s Physical
Chemistry.
Macmillan Higher Education, LLC, is a
confederation of these three unique textbook publishing houses, each of
which pursues its own publishing program independent from the others.
Palgrave Macmillan is a global academic
publisher, serving learning and scholarship in higher education and the
professional world. Palgrave Macmillan publishes textbooks, journals,
monographs, professional and reference works in print and online such as
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave was created in 2000 when
St. Martin's Press Scholarly and Reference (US) and Macmillan Press (UK)
united their world-wide publishing operations. The company formed was
renamed Palgrave Macmillan in January 2002.
Magazines & Journals
Scientific American
is the oldest continuously published magazine in the U.S. and has been
bringing its readers unique insights about developments in science and
technology for more than 150 years, while Nature (launched in 1869) is the world's
foremost weekly scientific journal and is the flagship journal for Nature
Publishing Group.
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For more than a century, New York City’s famous Flatiron
Building has occupied a piece of curiously-sized real estate at 175 Fifth
Avenue, sitting on a small triangular island at 23rd Street and Broadway,
facing Madison Square. Designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham in the
Beaux-Arts style, it was one of the first buildings to use a steel
skeleton and was one of the tallest in Manhattan upon its completion in
1902. Constructed using limestone and terra-cotta, and until fairly
recently sporting hydraulic elevators, it was added to the National
Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is one of the most recognizable
buildings in the world, appearing in numerous movies and on countless
postcards and posters. Macmillan is currently in the process of
renovating some of the Flatiron’s floors in the process of taking over
the entire building. The Flatiron’s interior is known for having its
strangely-shaped offices with walls that cut through at an angle on their
way to the skyscraper’s famous point. These “point” offices are the most
coveted and feature amazing northern views that look directly upon
another famous Manhattan landmark, the Empire State Building.
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