Henry Holt Book Company
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| Parent company | Georg Von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group |
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| Founded | 1866 |
| Founder | Henry Holt and Frederick Leypoldt |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City |
| Publication types | Books - Hardcover and Paperback |
| Nonfiction topics | Various |
| Imprints | Francis Coady, John Macrae, Metropolitan, Times |
| Official website | www |
Henry Holt and Company is an American book publishing company, in New York City. One of the oldest publishers in the United States, it was founded in 1866 by Henry Holt and Frederick Leypoldt. Currently, the company publishes in the fields of American and international fiction, biography, history and politics, science, psychology, and health, as well as books for children's literature. In the US, it operates under Macmillan Publishers.
The company publishes under several imprints including Metropolitan Books, Times Books, Owl Books and Picador. It also publishes under the name of Holt Paperbacks.
The company has published works by renowned authors Erich Fromm, Paul Auster, Hilary Mantel, Robert Frost, Hermann Hesse, Norman Mailer, Herta Müller, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ivan Turgenev and H. G. Wells.
From 1951 to 1985, Holt published the magazine Field & Stream.
Holt merged with Rinehart & Company of New York and the John C. Winston Company of Philadelphia in 1960 to become Holt, 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."
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