Hutchinson Heinemann is a British publishing firm founded in 1887. It is currently an imprint which is ultimately owned byBertelsmann, the German publishing conglomerate.
Hutchinson Heinemann began as Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.,[1] an English book publisher, founded in London in 1887 by Sir George Hutchinson and later run by his son,Walter Hutchinson (1887–1950). Hutchinson's published books and magazines such asThe Lady's Realm,Adventure-story Magazine,Hutchinson's Magazine andWoman.[2]
In the 1920s, Walter Hutchinson published many of the "spook stories" ofE. F. Benson inHutchinson's Magazine and then in collections in a number of books. The company also first publishedArthur Conan Doyle'sProfessor Challenger novels, five novels by mystery writerHarry Stephen Keeler, and short stories byEden Phillpotts. In 1929, Walter Hutchinson stopped publishing magazines to concentrate on books.[2] In the 1930s, Hutchinson publishedH. G. Wells'sThe Bulpington of Blup as well as the first English translations ofVladimir Nabokov'sCamera Obscura (translated by Winifred Roy with Nabokov credited as Vladimir Nabokoff-Sirin) in 1936 andDespair (translated by Nabokov himself) under its John Long marque of paperbacks.[3]
In 1947, the company launched the Hutchinson University Library book series.[4]
The company merged with Century Publishing in 1985 to form Century Hutchinson. The new company acquired the publishing firm Muller,Blond & White Ltd in 1987. Century Hutchinson was folded into the BritishRandom House Group in 1989,[5] briefly known as Random Century (1990–1992),[6] Century became animprint of Cornerstone Publishing,[7] a publishing house of Penguin Random House UK,[8] which is in turn a division ofPenguin Random House, which itself, since 2013, was owned jointly byBertelsmann andPearson plc[9] and since 2019, just by Bertelsmann.[10] In 2021, Penguin Random House mergedWilliam Heinemann, Hutchinson and Windmill into Hutchinson Heinemann.[11]
^abjoint venture with Amperwelle Studio München Programmanbietergesellschaft,Axel Springer AG, Burda, Studio Gong, m.b.t. Mediengesellschaft der bayerischen Tageszeitungen für Kabelkommunikation, Medienpool and Radio Bavaria Rundfunkprogrammgesellschaft.
^joint venture with Verlagsgesellschaft Madsack, Studio Gong Niedersachsen and Brune-Rieck-Beteiligungs.
^joint venture with Axel Springer, Heinrich Bauer Verlag, Lühmanndruck Harburger Zeitungsgesellschaft and Morgenpost Verlag.
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