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Little, Brown and Company

April 12, 2024

Not to be confused with Little, Brown Book Group.
For the former chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, see Lytle Brown.

Little, Brown and Company is an American publishing company founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown in Boston. For close to two centuries, it has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors. Early lists featured Emily Dickinson's poetry and Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Since 2006, Little, Brown and Company is a division of the Hachette Book Group.[1]

Little, Brown and Company
Parent companyHachette Book Group USA
Founded1837; 187 years ago (1837)
Founder
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationBoston (1837 to 2011) and New York City (2001 to present), U.S.
ImprintsBack Bay Books; Mulholland Books; Jimmy Patterson Books; Little, Brown Spark; Voracious
Official websitewww.littlebrown.com

History edit

19th century edit

Little, Brown and Company had its roots in the book selling trade. It was founded in 1837 in Boston by Charles Little and James Brown.[1][2] They formed the partnership "for the purpose of Publishing, Importing, and Selling Books".[1] It can trace its roots before that to 1784 to a bookshop owned by Ebenezer Battelle on Marlborough Street.[1] They published works of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, and specialized in legal publishing and importing titles.[3]

The company was the most extensive law publisher in the United States, and also the largest importer of standard English law and miscellaneous works, introducing American buyers to the Encyclopædia Britannica,[3] the dictionaries of William Smith, and many other standard works.[4] In the early years Little and Brown published the Works of Daniel Webster, George Bancroft's History of the United States,[3] William H. Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella, Jones Very's first book of poetry (edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson), Letters of John Adams and works by James Russell Lowell and Francis Parkman. Little, Brown and Company was the American publisher for Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.[1][3]

The firm was the original publisher of United States Statutes at Large beginning in 1845, under authority granted by a joint resolution of Congress. In 1874, Congress transferred the authority to publish the Statutes at Large to the Government Printing Office, which has been responsible for producing the set since that time.[5] 1 U.S.C. § 113 still recognizes their edition of the laws and treaties of the United States are competent evidence of the several public and private Acts of Congress, treaties, and international agreements other than treaties of the United States.

In 1853, Little, Brown began publishing the works of British poets from Chaucer to Wordsworth. Ninety-six volumes were published in the series in five years.[6]

In 1859, John Bartlett became a partner in the firm. He held the rights to his Familiar Quotations, and Little, Brown published the 15th edition of the work in 1980, 125 years after its first publication. John Murray Brown, James Brown's son, took over when Augustus Flagg retired in 1884. In the 1890s, Little, Brown expanded into general publishing, including fiction. In 1896, it published Quo Vadis. In 1898, Little, Brown purchased a list of titles from the Roberts Brothers firm.[6] 19th century employees included Charles Carroll Soule.[7]

20th century edit

 
Little, Brown and Company's insignia used in 1906.

John Murray Brown died in 1908 and James W. McIntyre became managing partner. When McIntyre died in 1913, Little, Brown incorporated. In 1925, Little, Brown entered into an agreement to publish all Atlantic Monthly books. This arrangement lasted until 1985. During this time the joint Atlantic Monthly Press/Little Brown imprint published All Quiet on the Western Front, Herge's The Adventures of Tintin, James Truslow Adams's The Adams Family, Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty and its sequels, James Hilton's Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Walter D. Edmonds's Drums Along the Mohawk, William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, Tracy Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine, J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye[6] and James G. Randall's The Divided Union.[8]

Salinger later terminated his contract with the publishing house sometime in the 1970s, though his novel was still published by Little, Brown.

Other prominent figures published by Little, Brown in the 20th and early 21st centuries have included Nagaru Tanigawa, Donald Barthelme, Louisa M. Alcott, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Bernie Brillstein, Thornton Burgess, Hortense Calisher, Bruce Catton, A. J. Cronin, Peter De Vries, J. Frank Dobie, C. S. Forester, John Fowles, Malcolm Gladwell, Pete Hamill, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, Lillian Hellman, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry Kissinger, Elizabeth Kostova, Norman Mailer, William Manchester, Nelson Mandela, John P. Marquand, Masters and Johnson, Stephenie Meyer, Rick Moody, Ogden Nash, Edwin O'Connor, Erich Maria Remarque, Alice Sebold, David Sedaris, George Stephanopoulos, Gwyn Thomas, Gore Vidal, David Foster Wallace, Evelyn Waugh, John A. Williams, P. G. Wodehouse, James Patterson and Herman Wouk. Little, Brown also published the photography of Ansel Adams.[6]

The company was purchased by Time Inc. in 1968.[6] Little, Brown acquired the medical publisher College Hill Press in 1986.[9] Little, Brown was made part of the Time Warner Book Group when Time merged with Warner Communications to form Time Warner in 1989. In 2001, all editing staff moved from Boston to Time Warner Book Group offices in New York City.[10]

21st century edit

In 2001, Michael Pietsch became publisher of Little, Brown.

Little, Brown expanded into the United Kingdom in 1992 when TWBG bought MacDonald & Co from Maxwell Communications, taking on its Abacus (upmarket paperback) and Orbit (science fiction) lists, and authors including Iain Banks. Feminist publisher Virago Press followed in 1996. Also in 1996, Wolters Kluwer acquired Little, Brown's legal and medical publishing division and incorporated it into its Aspen and Lippincott-Raven imprints.[11]

In 2006, the Time Warner Book Group was sold to French publisher Hachette Livre. Following this, the Little, Brown imprint is used by Hachette Livre's U.S. publishing company, Hachette Book Group USA.

In 2011, Little, Brown launched an imprint devoted to suspense publishing: Mulholland Books.[12]

In February 2013, Reagan Arthur was selected to be publisher of Little, Brown, while closing her five-year-old imprint, Reagan Arthur Books.[13]

In October 2017, Little, Brown started an unnamed imprint devoted to health, lifestyle, psychology, and science with the appointment of Tracy Behar as the imprint's vice president, publisher, and editor-in-chief.[14] The imprint Little, Brown Spark launched in fall 2018[15] and has published authors such as Mark Hyman, Tricia Hersey, and Sue Johnson.

In October 2018, Little, Brown announced an imprint dedicated to illustrated books with Michael Szczerban as vice president and editorial director.[16][17] The Voracious imprint launched in fall 2019[18] and has published works by Accidentally Wes Anderson, Ayesha Curry, Vivian Howard, Christopher Kimball's Milk Street, Marcus Samuelsson, and Pete Souza, among others.[19][20]

In February 2020, Hachette Book Group acquired 1,000 titles for young readers from Disney Book Group for Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.[21]

In May 2020, Bruce Nichols became publisher of Little, Brown's adult imprints.[22]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e . www.littlebrown.com. Archived from the original on May 13, 2016. Retrieved May 1, 2016.
  2. ^ Hudson, Robert Vernon (January 1, 1987). Mass Media: A Chronological Encyclopedia of Television, Radio, Motion Pictures, Magazines, Newspapers, and Books in the United States. Garland Publishing, Incorporated. ISBN 9780824086954.
  3. ^ a b c d Lynde, John H. (October 28, 1969). "Editorial Correspondence". Whig & Courier.
  4. ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). "Little, Charles Coffin" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
  5. ^ "Statutes at Large". Library of Congress. Retrieved June 6, 2012.
  6. ^ a b c d e Oliver 1986
  7. ^ "Obituary", Publishers Weekly, January 11, 1913
  8. ^ Randall, J. G. (1961). The divided Union. Boston: Little, Brown.
  9. ^ "Paid Notice: Deaths
    SINGH, DR". The New York Times. March 10, 2010. from the original on August 8, 2021. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
  10. ^ Mehegan, David (January 26, 2002). "LITTLE, BROWN SHRINKING AGAIN: [THIRD Edition]". Boston Globe; Boston, Mass. Boston, Mass., United States, Boston, Mass. pp. –1. ISSN 0743-1791. ProQuest 405447754.
  11. ^ CARVAJAL, DOREEN (1996). "Dutch Publisher Buying Division of Little, Brown: Wolters Kluwer will gain a key source of professional books". The New York Times. New York, N.Y., United States. pp. –3. ISSN 0362-4331. ProQuest 109602203. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
  12. ^ "Little, Brown and Company Announces New Suspense Imprint's Name and Launch List". Book Business. June 18, 2010. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
  13. ^ "News Briefs: Week of February 11, 2013". Publishers Weekly. February 8, 2013. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  14. ^ Maher, John (October 30, 2017). "Tracy Behar Named Publisher, Editor-in-Chief of New Little, Brown Imprint". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  15. ^ "Tracy Behar Names New Imprint, Little, Brown Spark" (Press release). March 15, 2018. Retrieved April 20, 2020 – via Publishers Weekly.
  16. ^ "Michael Szczerban named VP, Editorial Director of New Imprint at Little, Brown and Company". Hachette Book Group. October 24, 2018. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
  17. ^ Maher, John (October 25, 2018). "Szczerban to Helm New Imprint at Little, Brown". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
  18. ^ "Meet Voracious". Hachette Book Group. from the original on March 26, 2023. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
  19. ^ "Voracious". Hachette Book Group. May 2, 2019. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
  20. ^ "LB Illustrated Imprint Gets Name, Team". Publishers Weekly. May 28, 2019. from the original on March 26, 2023. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
  21. ^ Milliot, Jim (February 6, 2020). "HBG Buys More Than 1,000 Disney Book Group Titles". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  22. ^ Deahl, Rachel (April 15, 2020). "HMH's Bruce Nichols Tapped to Head Little, Brown". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved March 26, 2023.

Further reading edit

  • Little, Brown and Company, One Hundred Years of Publishing, 1837-1937. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co.
  • Oliver, Bill (1986), "Little, Brown and Company", in Peter Dzwonkonski (ed.), Dictionary of Literary Biography - Volume Forty-nine - American Literary Publishing Houses, 1638–1899 Part 1: A–M. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company.

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Not to be confused with Little Brown Book Group For the former chief of the U S Army Corps of Engineers see Lytle Brown Little Brown and Company is an American publishing company founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown in Boston For close to two centuries it has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors Early lists featured Emily Dickinson s poetry and Bartlett s Familiar Quotations Since 2006 Little Brown and Company is a division of the Hachette Book Group 1 Little Brown and CompanyParent companyHachette Book Group USAFounded1837 187 years ago 1837 FounderCharles Coffin LittleJames BrownCountry of originUnited StatesHeadquarters locationBoston 1837 to 2011 and New York City 2001 to present U S ImprintsBack Bay Books Mulholland Books Jimmy Patterson Books Little Brown Spark VoraciousOfficial websitewww wbr littlebrown wbr com Contents 1 History 1 1 19th century 1 2 20th century 1 3 21st century 2 See also 3 References 3 1 Further reading 4 External linksHistory edit19th century edit Little Brown and Company had its roots in the book selling trade It was founded in 1837 in Boston by Charles Little and James Brown 1 2 They formed the partnership for the purpose of Publishing Importing and Selling Books 1 It can trace its roots before that to 1784 to a bookshop owned by Ebenezer Battelle on Marlborough Street 1 They published works of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington and specialized in legal publishing and importing titles 3 The company was the most extensive law publisher in the United States and also the largest importer of standard English law and miscellaneous works introducing American buyers to the Encyclopaedia Britannica 3 the dictionaries of William Smith and many other standard works 4 In the early years Little and Brown published the Works of Daniel Webster George Bancroft s History of the United States 3 William H Prescott s Ferdinand and Isabella Jones Very s first book of poetry edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson Letters of John Adams and works by James Russell Lowell and Francis Parkman Little Brown and Company was the American publisher for Edward Gibbon s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1 3 The firm was the original publisher of United States Statutes at Large beginning in 1845 under authority granted by a joint resolution of Congress In 1874 Congress transferred the authority to publish the Statutes at Large to the Government Printing Office which has been responsible for producing the set since that time 5 1 U S C 113 still recognizes their edition of the laws and treaties of the United States are competent evidence of the several public and private Acts of Congress treaties and international agreements other than treaties of the United States In 1853 Little Brown began publishing the works of British poets from Chaucer to Wordsworth Ninety six volumes were published in the series in five years 6 In 1859 John Bartlett became a partner in the firm He held the rights to his Familiar Quotations and Little Brown published the 15th edition of the work in 1980 125 years after its first publication John Murray Brown James Brown s son took over when Augustus Flagg retired in 1884 In the 1890s Little Brown expanded into general publishing including fiction In 1896 it published Quo Vadis In 1898 Little Brown purchased a list of titles from the Roberts Brothers firm 6 19th century employees included Charles Carroll Soule 7 20th century edit nbsp Little Brown and Company s insignia used in 1906 John Murray Brown died in 1908 and James W McIntyre became managing partner When McIntyre died in 1913 Little Brown incorporated In 1925 Little Brown entered into an agreement to publish all Atlantic Monthly books This arrangement lasted until 1985 During this time the joint Atlantic Monthly Press Little Brown imprint published All Quiet on the Western Front Herge s The Adventures of Tintin James Truslow Adams s The Adams Family Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall s Mutiny on the Bounty and its sequels James Hilton s Goodbye Mr Chips Walter D Edmonds s Drums Along the Mohawk William Least Heat Moon s Blue Highways Tracy Kidder s The Soul of a New Machine J D Salinger s The Catcher in the Rye 6 and James G Randall s The Divided Union 8 Salinger later terminated his contract with the publishing house sometime in the 1970s though his novel was still published by Little Brown Other prominent figures published by Little Brown in the 20th and early 21st centuries have included Nagaru Tanigawa Donald Barthelme Louisa M Alcott Catherine Drinker Bowen Bernie Brillstein Thornton Burgess Hortense Calisher Bruce Catton A J Cronin Peter De Vries J Frank Dobie C S Forester John Fowles Malcolm Gladwell Pete Hamill Cynthia Harrod Eagles Lillian Hellman Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Henry Kissinger Elizabeth Kostova Norman Mailer William Manchester Nelson Mandela John P Marquand Masters and Johnson Stephenie Meyer Rick Moody Ogden Nash Edwin O Connor Erich Maria Remarque Alice Sebold David Sedaris George Stephanopoulos Gwyn Thomas Gore Vidal David Foster Wallace Evelyn Waugh John A Williams P G Wodehouse James Patterson and Herman Wouk Little Brown also published the photography of Ansel Adams 6 The company was purchased by Time Inc in 1968 6 Little Brown acquired the medical publisher College Hill Press in 1986 9 Little Brown was made part of the Time Warner Book Group when Time merged with Warner Communications to form Time Warner in 1989 In 2001 all editing staff moved from Boston to Time Warner Book Group offices in New York City 10 21st century edit In 2001 Michael Pietsch became publisher of Little Brown Little Brown expanded into the United Kingdom in 1992 when TWBG bought MacDonald amp Co from Maxwell Communications taking on its Abacus upmarket paperback and Orbit science fiction lists and authors including Iain Banks Feminist publisher Virago Press followed in 1996 Also in 1996 Wolters Kluwer acquired Little Brown s legal and medical publishing division and incorporated it into its Aspen and Lippincott Raven imprints 11 In 2006 the Time Warner Book Group was sold to French publisher Hachette Livre Following this the Little Brown imprint is used by Hachette Livre s U S publishing company Hachette Book Group USA In 2011 Little Brown launched an imprint devoted to suspense publishing Mulholland Books 12 In February 2013 Reagan Arthur was selected to be publisher of Little Brown while closing her five year old imprint Reagan Arthur Books 13 In October 2017 Little Brown started an unnamed imprint devoted to health lifestyle psychology and science with the appointment of Tracy Behar as the imprint s vice president publisher and editor in chief 14 The imprint Little Brown Spark launched in fall 2018 15 and has published authors such as Mark Hyman Tricia Hersey and Sue Johnson In October 2018 Little Brown announced an imprint dedicated to illustrated books with Michael Szczerban as vice president and editorial director 16 17 The Voracious imprint launched in fall 2019 18 and has published works by Accidentally Wes Anderson Ayesha Curry Vivian Howard Christopher Kimball s Milk Street Marcus Samuelsson and Pete Souza among others 19 20 In February 2020 Hachette Book Group acquired 1 000 titles for young readers from Disney Book Group for Little Brown Books for Young Readers 21 In May 2020 Bruce Nichols became publisher of Little Brown s adult imprints 22 See also edit nbsp Companies portal nbsp Books portalBadminton Library Books in the United States List of largest UK book publishers Little Brown Book GroupReferences edit a b c d e Little Brown com 175th Anniversary www littlebrown com Archived from the original on May 13 2016 Retrieved May 1 2016 Hudson Robert Vernon January 1 1987 Mass Media A Chronological Encyclopedia of Television Radio Motion Pictures Magazines Newspapers and Books in the United States Garland Publishing Incorporated ISBN 9780824086954 a b c d Lynde John H October 28 1969 Editorial Correspondence Whig amp Courier One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain Wilson J G Fiske J eds 1892 Little Charles Coffin Appletons Cyclopaedia of American Biography New York D Appleton Statutes at Large Library of Congress Retrieved June 6 2012 a b c d e Oliver 1986 Obituary Publishers Weekly January 11 1913 Randall J G 1961 The divided Union Boston Little Brown Paid Notice Deaths SINGH DR The New York Times March 10 2010 Archived from the original on August 8 2021 Retrieved August 8 2021 Mehegan David January 26 2002 LITTLE BROWN SHRINKING AGAIN THIRD Edition Boston Globe Boston Mass Boston Mass United States Boston Mass pp 1 ISSN 0743 1791 ProQuest 405447754 CARVAJAL DOREEN 1996 Dutch Publisher Buying Division of Little Brown Wolters Kluwer will gain a key source of professional books The New York Times New York N Y United States pp 3 ISSN 0362 4331 ProQuest 109602203 Retrieved January 29 2021 Little Brown and Company Announces New Suspense Imprint s Name and Launch List Book Business June 18 2010 Retrieved February 8 2016 News Briefs Week of February 11 2013 Publishers Weekly February 8 2013 Retrieved April 20 2020 Maher John October 30 2017 Tracy Behar Named Publisher Editor in Chief of New Little Brown Imprint Publishers Weekly Retrieved April 20 2020 Tracy Behar Names New Imprint Little Brown Spark Press release March 15 2018 Retrieved April 20 2020 via Publishers Weekly Michael Szczerban named VP Editorial Director of New Imprint at Little Brown and Company Hachette Book Group October 24 2018 Retrieved March 26 2023 Maher John October 25 2018 Szczerban to Helm New Imprint at Little Brown Publishers Weekly Retrieved March 26 2023 Meet Voracious Hachette Book Group Archived from the original on March 26 2023 Retrieved March 26 2023 Voracious Hachette Book Group May 2 2019 Retrieved March 26 2023 LB Illustrated Imprint Gets Name Team Publishers Weekly May 28 2019 Archived from the original on March 26 2023 Retrieved March 26 2023 Milliot Jim February 6 2020 HBG Buys More Than 1 000 Disney Book Group Titles Publishers Weekly Retrieved April 20 2020 Deahl Rachel April 15 2020 HMH s Bruce Nichols Tapped to Head Little Brown Publishers Weekly Retrieved March 26 2023 Further reading edit Little Brown and Company One Hundred Years of Publishing 1837 1937 Boston MA Little Brown amp Co Oliver Bill 1986 Little Brown and Company in Peter Dzwonkonski ed Dictionary of Literary Biography Volume Forty nine American Literary Publishing Houses 1638 1899 Part 1 A M Detroit MI Gale Research Company External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Little Brown and Company nbsp Wikisource has original works published by or about Little Brown and Company Official website Little Brown and Company Little Brown Book Group Hachette UK Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Little Brown and Company amp oldid 1215253880, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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