| Parent company | Henry Holt (Macmillan) |
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| Founded | 1959 2000 (relaunch) |
| Founder | Melvin J. Brisk |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City,New York, U.S. |
| Imprints | Quadrangle Books |
Times Books (previously theNew York Times Book Company) is apublishingimprint owned bythe New York Times Company and licensed toHenry Holt and Company.
Times Books began as the New York Times Book Company in 1969,[1] when The New York Times Company purchasedQuadrangle Books, a small publishing house inChicago, founded in 1959 by Michael Braude. Its president was Melvin J. Brisk. Initially run entirely by The New York Times Company, the publishing arm name was changed to Times Books in 1977.
In 1984, the Times Company licensed the imprint toRandom House. From 1991 through 1996, during the Random House tenure, the head of Times Books wasPeter Osnos, who later foundedPublic Affairs Books.[2][3]
Times Books was re-licensed in 2000 as an imprint of Henry Holt, which is itself an imprint[4] of Holtzbrinck Publishers/Macmillan, the U.S. arm of theGeorg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.
Editorial directors for Times Books have included David Sobel[5] and Paul Golob.[6]
Times Books has had a somewhat controversialright of first refusal policy[1][5][7][8] with respect to manuscripts by employees ofThe New York Times Company.
Times Books is headquartered at 120Broadway inManhattan, New York City.
Through most of its history, The Times has been reluctant, unlikeThe Washington Post, to serve as a veritableYaddo for aBob Woodward class of author-reporter. "It goes way beyond [Woodward]," said one Post reporter who recently wrote a book. "I literally tried to count—there are 25 people in the newsroom who are currently writing or going off to write books. The Post is very nurturing of that. They understand it's to its benefit."
"Nobody at The Times will get the deal Woodward has," the senior Times staffer said. Times tradition has put the newspaper above all, encouraging budding authors to get lost—so long,Gay Talese!—or to accept punishingly cheap deals from The Times' house imprint.
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