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| Parent company | Georg Von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group |
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| Founded | 1866; 159 years ago (1866) |
| Founder | Henry Holt andFrederick Leypoldt |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Equitable Building, 120Broadway,New York City,New York, U.S. |
| Distribution | Macmillan (US) Melia Publishing Services (UK)[1] |
| Publication types | Books (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Nonfiction topics | Various |
| Imprints | Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, Francis Coady, John Macrae, Metropolitan,Times, Godwin, Christy Ottaviano |
| Official website | henryholt |
Henry Holt and Company is an American book-publishing company based inNew York City. One of the oldest publishers in the United States, it was founded in 1866 byHenry Holt andFrederick Leypoldt.[2] The company publishes in the fields of American and internationalfiction,biography,history,politics,science,psychology,health, andchildren's literature. In the U.S., it operates underMacmillan Publishers.
The company publishes under several imprints, including Metropolitan Books,Times Books, Owl Books, andPicador. It also publishes under the name of Holt Paperbacks.[3]
The company has published works by renowned authorsErich Fromm,Paul Auster,Hilary Mantel,Robert Frost,Hermann Hesse,Norman Mailer,Herta Müller,Thomas Pynchon,Robert Louis Stevenson,Ivan Turgenev, andNoam Chomsky.
From 1951 to 1985, Holt published the magazineField & Stream.[4][5]
Holt merged withRinehart & Company of New York and theJohn C. Winston Company of Philadelphia in 1960 to becomeHolt, Rinehart and Winston.The Wall Street Journal reported on March 1 that Holt stockholders had approved the merger, last of the three approvals. "Henry Holt is the surviving concern, but will be known as Holt, Rinehart, Winston, Inc."[6]
CBS purchased the company in 1967, but in 1985, the group split, and the retail publishing arm, along with the Holt name, was sold to theGeorg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group based inStuttgart, which has retained Holt as a subsidiary publishing under its original name and in the US it is part ofMacmillan Publishers.
The educational publishing arm, which retained the Holt, Rinehart and Winston name, was sold toHarcourt.
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