Curated category
Book publishing companies based in New York (state)
- Vintage BooksVintage Books began life in 1954 as an idea inside Alfred A. Knopf, one of American publishing's most prestigious houses.
- St. Martin's PressSt. Martin's Press puts out roughly 700 books a year from its offices in the Equitable Building in Manhattan. That volume alone places it among the largest…
- Simon & SchusterSimon & Schuster began with a crossword puzzle and a question no one had thought to answer. In 1924, Richard Simon's aunt, an avid puzzle enthusiast, asked…
- Oxford University PressOxford University Press is the largest university press in the world, and only Cambridge University Press, founded in 1534, is older.
- New York University PressChancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown established New York University Press in 1916. The press began operations that same year under his direct supervision.
- Random HouseRandom House began with a casual remark that became a company name. In 1927, Bennett Cerf told his new partner Donald Klopfer that they were simply going to…
- Bantam BooksBantam Books began in 1945 as an unlikely coalition of publishing ambitions. Walter B. Pitkin Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine pooled…
- HarperCollinsHarperCollins traces its name to two companies that never met until one man decided to buy them both. James Harper and his brother John founded J & J Harper…
- Columbia University PressColumbia University Press has been shaping how the world reads, studies, and questions things since May 1893. It was born in New York City, tied to Columbia…
- Free Press (publisher)Jeremiah Kaplan and Charles Liebman established Free Press in 1947. They chose the name to signal a commitment to civil liberties.
- Viking PressHarold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheimer established Viking Press in New York City on the 1st of March 1925. They chose a name that evoked enterprise…
- Harper (publisher)Harper is one of the oldest continuously operating publishing houses in the United States, tracing its roots to a print shop opened in New York City in 1817.
- Alfred A. KnopfAlfred A. Knopf, Inc. was built on five thousand dollars borrowed from a father, and it became one of the most decorated publishing houses in American…
- Cornell University PressCornell University Press has the distinction of being the first university publishing enterprise established in the United States, founded in 1869.
- Ace BooksAaron A. Wyn hired editor Donald A. Wollheim in 1952 after a mistaken phone call from his wife Rose. The first book released that year was Keith Vining's Too…
- New American LibraryNew American Library began its life not as an American company at all, but as Penguin U.S.A., a transatlantic outpost of the British publisher Penguin Books.
- Henry Holt and CompanyHenry Holt and Company opened its doors in 1866. Two men named Henry Holt and Frederick Leypoldt started the business together.
- Three Rivers PressThree Rivers Press takes its name from geography: the Harlem, East, and Hudson rivers that border Manhattan. Behind that name sits one of New York…
- DAW BooksDAW Books arrived in 1972 with a single paperback in hand: Spell of the Witch World, a short story collection by Andre Norton.
- Pantheon BooksPantheon Books began its life in 1942 in New York City, founded by two refugees who had crossed an ocean to escape fascism and the Holocaust.
- Syracuse University PressAugust 1943 marked the birth of Syracuse University Press. President William P. Tolley made a promise to Thomas J. Watson that day.
- PublicAffairsPublicAffairs Books launched in New York City in 1997 with a clear conviction: that serious non-fiction about politics and current affairs deserved a…
- Fordham University PressFordham University Press has been putting ideas into print since 1907, making it the oldest Catholic university press in the United States and the…
- Prometheus BooksPrometheus Books was founded in August 1969 by philosopher Paul Kurtz, and its name tells you everything about what it intended to do.
- Ballantine BooksBallantine Books opened for business in 1952 with a claim its founder, Ian Ballantine, put in blunt commercial terms. He promised to "offer trade publishers…
- Dover PublicationsHayward and Blanche Cirker opened their book business in 1941 from an apartment building called The Dover in Forest Hills South, Queens.
- Charles Scribner's SonsCharles Scribner's Sons has spent nearly two centuries at the center of American literature, publishing names that now appear on high school syllabi and…
- Farrar, Straus and GirouxRoger W. Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar established Farrar, Straus, and Company in 1945. Their first book was Yank: The G.I.
- Berghahn BooksBerghahn Books began in 1994 when Marion Berghahn founded a press dedicated to the corners of scholarship that larger publishers often overlooked.
- Cambria PressCambria Press opened its doors in Amherst, New York, sending its first titles into the world in September 2006. From the start, it operated as an independent…
- Manning PublicationsManning Publications began in 1990 not as a technology company, but as a book packaging business. Marjan Bace and Lee Fitzpatrick were the two business…
- Scholastic CorporationScholastic Corporation began as a four-page magazine handed out to students in 50 high schools near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- Hippocrene BooksHippocrene Books sits at 171 Madison Avenue in New York City, a small independent press with an outsized mission: to publish the languages and literatures…