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| Parent company | Simon & Schuster (trade),Gale (reference) |
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| Founded | 1846; 179 years ago (1846) |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | 153–157Fifth Avenue, New York City, U.S. |
| Distribution | Worldwide |
| Publication types | Books |
| Fiction genres | American literature |
| Imprints | Marysue Rucci |
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| Official website | scribnerbooks |
Charles Scribner's Sons, or simplyScribner's orScribner, is an American publisher based in New York City that has published several notable American authors, includingHenry James,Ernest Hemingway,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Kurt Vonnegut,Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,Stephen King,Robert A. Heinlein,Thomas Wolfe,George Santayana,John Clellon Holmes,Don DeLillo, andEdith Wharton.
The firm publishedScribner's Magazine for many years. More recently, several Scribner titles and authors have garneredPulitzer Prizes,National Book Awards and other merits. In 1978, the company merged withAtheneum and became The Scribner Book Companies. It merged intoMacmillan in 1984.[1]
Simon & Schuster bought Macmillan in 1994.[2] By this point, only the trade book and reference book operations still bore the original family name. After the merger, the Macmillan and Atheneum adult lists were merged into Scribner's, and the Scribner's children list was merged into Atheneum.[3][4] The trade division, now simply "Scribner", was retained by Simon & Schuster, while the reference division and the trademarks have been owned byGale since 1999 and Simon & Schuster licensed the Scribner trademark for trade publishing from Gale.[5] As of 2012[update], Scribner is a division of Simon & Schuster under the title Scribner Publishing Group, including the Touchstone Books imprint.[6]
The president of Scribner as of 2017[update] is Susan Moldow (who also held the position of publisher from 1994 to 2012), and the current publisher is Nan Graham.[7]
The firm was founded in 1846 byCharles Scribner I and Isaac D. Baker as "Baker & Scribner." After Baker's death, Scribner bought the remainder of the company and renamed it the "Charles Scribner Company." In 1865, the company first ventured into magazine publishing withHours at Home.
In 1870, the Scribners[clarification needed] organized a new firm, Scribner and Company, to publish a magazine entitledScribner's Monthly. After the death of Charles Scribner I in 1871, his sonJohn Blair Scribner took over as president of the company. His other sonsCharles Scribner II andArthur Hawley Scribner would also join the firm in 1875 and 1884. They each later served as presidents. When the other partners in the venture sold their stake to the family, the company was renamed Charles Scribner's Sons.
The company launchedSt. Nicholas Magazine in 1873 withMary Mapes Dodge as editor andFrank R. Stockton as assistant editor; it became well known as a children's magazine. When the Scribner family sold the magazine company to outside investors in 1881,Scribner's Monthly was renamed theCentury Magazine. The Scribner brothers were enjoined from publishing any magazine for a period.
In 1886, at the expiration of this term, they launchedScribner's Magazine. The firm's headquarters were in theScribner Building, built in 1893, on lower Fifth Avenue at 21st Street, and later in theCharles Scribner's Sons Building, on Fifth Avenue in midtown. Both buildings were designed byErnest Flagg in aBeaux Arts style.
The children's book division was established in 1934 under the leadership ofAlice Dalgliesh. It published works by distinguished authors and illustrators includingN.C. Wyeth,Robert A. Heinlein,Marcia Brown,Will James,Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, andLeo Politi.
Scribner merged with Atheneum in 1978 and intoMacmillan Inc. in 1984. In 1994, Macmillan was bought bySimon & Schuster. The reference division along with Charles Scribner's Sons and Scribner trademarks were sold as part of Simon & Schuster's Macmillan Library Reference (MLR) toPearson in 1998, Pearson resold MLR toThomson Corporation a year later. Thomson Corporation placed the acquired MLR divisions into Gale.[8][9]
Thomson Learning including Gale becameCengage Group in 2007, Simon & Schuster licensed the Scribner trademarks for trade publishing from Gale.[5]
Simon & Schuster reorganized their adult imprints into four divisions in 2012.[6] Scribner became the Scribner Publishing Group and would expand to include Touchstone Books, which had previously been part of Free Press.[10] The other divisions areAtria Publishing Group,Simon & Schuster Publishing Group, and theGallery Publishing Group. Susan Moldow would lead the new Scribner division as president.[6]
As of 2023[update], the reference division and the trademarks are owned by Cengage Group and the trade division is owned byKohlberg Kravis Roberts.[11]
Simon & Schuster has published thousands of books from thousands of authors. This list represents some of the more notable authors (those who are culturally significant or have had several bestsellers) from Scribner since becoming part of Simon & Schuster. For a more extensive list, see List of Simon & Schuster authors.
The Scribner Bookstores are now owned byBarnes & Noble.
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