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On George Palmer Putnam's death in 1872, his sons George H., John and Irving inherited the business and the firm's name was changed to G. P. Putnam's Sons. [3] Son George H. Putnam became president of the firm, a position he held for the next fifty-two years. In 1874, the company established its own book printing and manufacturing office, set ...
Junior Library. Official website. www .penguinrandomhouse .com /authors /2034385 /grosset-and-dunlap /. Grosset & Dunlap is a New York City -based publishing house founded in 1898. The company was purchased by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1982 [1] and today is part of Penguin Random House through its subsidiary Penguin Group. [2]
George P. Putnam. George Palmer Putnam (September 7, 1887 – January 4, 1950) was an American publisher, writer and explorer. Known for his marriage to (and being the widower of) Amelia Earhart, he had also achieved fame as one of the most successful promoters in the United States during the 1930s.
1853–1857. First, it was edited by Charles Frederick Briggs from January 1853 to September 1857 (whereupon it merged with Emerson's United States Magazine ); It was founded by George Palmer Putnam, who intended it to be a vehicle for publishing the best of new American writing; a circular that Putnam sent to prospective authors (including ...
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac. The Messenger (Silva novel) The Midnight Star. Mistress Masham's Repose. The Mistress of Shenstone (novel) The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. Moscow Rules (novel) My Wicked, Wicked Ways. Murder in Grub Street.
Berkley Books began as an independent company in 1955. It was founded as "Chic News Company" by Charles Byrne and Frederick Klein, who had worked for Avon; they quickly renamed it Berkley Publishing Co. The new name was a coinage, combining elements of their surnames, unrelated to either the philosopher George Berkeley or Berkeley, California.
Trinity's Child is a 1983 fiction novel written by William Prochnau.The book narrates of a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union.. The story takes place during the waning years of the Cold War when the US engages in a massive military buildup against the Soviet Union to push the Soviet economy to a breaking point, with the aim of bringing it to a political compromise ...
A Small Town in Germany. The Looking Glass War is a 1965 spy novel by John le Carré. Written in response to the positive public reaction to his previous novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, the book explores the unglamorous nature of espionage and the danger of nostalgia. The book tells the story of an incompetent British military ...