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Houghton Mifflin Company

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Parent company Vivendi (2001–2002)
Traded as NASDAQHMHC
Founded 1832
Founder Henry Oscar Houghton, George Mifflin
Country of origin United States
Headquarters location Boston, Massachusetts
Key people L. Gordon Crovitz, Interim CEO
Publication types Books, software
Imprints Clarion, Graphia, Mariner, Sandpiper, HMH Books for Young Readers
Number of employees 4,000+
Official website www.hmhco.com

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (/ˈhtən ˈmɪflɪn ˈhɑːrkɔːrt/) is an educational and trade publisher in the United States. Headquartered in Boston's Back Bay, it publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults.

The company was formerly known as Houghton Mifflin Company but changed its name following the 2007 acquisition of Harcourt Publishing. Prior to March 2010, it was a subsidiary of Education Media and Publishing Group Limited, an Irish-owned holding company registered in the Cayman Islands and formerly known as Riverdeep.

In 1832, William Ticknor and James Thomas Fields had gathered an impressive list of writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. The duo formed a close relationship with Riverside Press, a Boston printing company owned by Henry Oscar Houghton. Shortly after, Houghton also founded a publishing company with partner George Mifflin. In 1880, Ticknor and Fields and Houghton and Mifflin merged their operations, combining the literary works of writers with the expertise of a publisher and creating a new partnership named Houghton, Mifflin and Company. The company still had debt from when it merged from Houghton, Osgood and Company, so it decided to add partners. In 1884, James D. Hurd, the son of Melancthon Hurd became a partner. Three people in 1888 became partners as well: James Murray Kay, Thurlow Weed Barnes, and Henry Oscar Houghton, Jr.


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