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| Parent company | HarperCollins |
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| Founded | March 6, 1817; 208 years ago (1817-03-06) (as J. & J. Harper) |
| Founder | James Harper John Harper |
| Headquarters location | New York City, U.S. |
| Owner | News Corp |
Harper is an American publishing house, the flagshipimprint of global publisherHarperCollins, based inNew York City. Founded in New York in 1817 byJames Harper and his brother John, the company operated as J. & J. Harper until 1833, when it changed its name to Harper & Brothers, reflecting the inclusion of Joseph andFletcher Harper. Harper began publishingHarper's Magazine,Harper's Weekly, and other periodicals beginning in the 1850s. From 1962 to 1990, the company was known as Harper & Row after its merger with Row, Peterson & Company. Harper & Row was purchased in 1987 byNews Corporation and combined withWilliam Collins, Sons, its United Kingdom counterpart, in 1990 to formHarperCollins, although the Harper name has been used in its place since 2007.
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James Harper and his brother John, printers by training, started their book publishing business, J. & J. Harper, in New York City in 1817. Their two brothers, Joseph Wesley andFletcher, joined them in the mid-1820s.
The company changed its name to "Harper & Brothers" in 1833. The headquarters of the publishing house was located at 331 Pearl Street, facingFranklin Square inLower Manhattan near the present-day Manhattan approach to theBrooklyn Bridge.
Harper & Brothers began publishingHarper's New Monthly Magazine inNew York City, in 1850. The brothers also publishedHarper's Weekly (starting in New York City in June 1857),Harper's Bazar (starting in New York City on November 2, 1867), andHarper's Young People (starting in New York City in 1879).
George B. M. Harvey became president of Harper's on November 16, 1899.[1]
Harper's New Monthly Magazine ultimately becameHarper's Magazine, now published by the Harper's Magazine Foundation.Harper's Weekly was absorbed byThe Independent (New York; later Boston) in 1916, which merged withThe Outlook in 1928.Harper's Bazar was sold toWilliam Randolph Hearst in 1913, becameHarper's Bazaar, and is now simplyBazaar, published by theHearst Corporation.
In 1924,Cass Canfield joined Harper & Brothers and held various executive positions until he died in 1986.[2] In 1925, Eugene F. Saxton joined the company as an editor, and he was responsible for publishing many well-known authors, includingEdna St. Vincent Millay andThornton Wilder.[3] In 1935,Edward Aswell moved to Harper & Brothers as an assistant editor of general books and eventually became editor-in-chief. Aswell persuadedThomas Wolfe to leaveScribner's, and, after Wolfe's death, edited the posthumous novels,The Web and the Rock,You Can't Go Home Again, andThe Hills Beyond.[4]
In 1962, Harper & Brothers merged with Row, Peterson & Company to become Harper & Row. Harper's religion publishing moved toSan Francisco and became Harper San Francisco, which is nowHarperOne, in 1977. Harper & Row acquiredThomas Y. Crowell Co. andJ. B. Lippincott & Co. in the 1970s; Crowell and the trade operations of Lippincott were merged into Harper & Row in 1980.[5] In 1988, Harper & Row purchased the religious publisherZondervan, including subsidiaryMarshall Pickering.[6]
Rupert Murdoch'sNews Corporation, nowNews Corp, acquired Harper & Row in 1987, andWilliam Collins, Sons in 1990. The names of these two national publishing houses, Harper & Row in the United States and Collins in the United Kingdom, were combined along with the Harper's torch icon and Collins' fountain icon to createHarperCollins.[7] The company has since expanded its international reach with further acquisitions of formerly independent publishers. The Harper imprint began being used in place of HarperCollins in 2007.
After the purchase of Harper & Row byNews Corporation, HarperCollins launched a new mass-market paperback line to complement its existing trade paperbackPerennial imprint. It was known as Harper Paperbacks from 1990 to 2000, HarperTorch from 2000 to 2006, and Harper from 2007 to the present.
Howard Pyle works almost exclusively for the Harpers.
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