Parent company | Macmillan Publishers |
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Founded | 1952 |
Country of origin | United Kingdom (1952–1990s) |
Headquarters location | New York City, New York, United States |
Key people | George Witte, Sally Richardson, Thomas Dunne, Jennifer Enderlin |
Imprints | Minotaur, St. Martin's Griffin, Thomas Dunne Books |
Owner(s) | Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck |
Official website | stmartins |
St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in Manhattan, New York City. St. Martin's Press is considered one of the largest English-language publishers. bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints.
The imprints include St. Martin's Press (mainstream and bestseller books), St. Martin's Griffin (mainstream paperback books, including science fiction and romance), Minotaur (mystery, suspense, and thrillers), Picador (specialty books), Thomas Dunne Books (suspense and mainstream), and Truman Talley Books (business and speciality books).
St. Martin's Press's current editor in chief is George Witte.
Macmillan Publishers of the U.K. founded St. Martin's in 1952 and named it after St Martin's Lane in London, where associated press Macmillan Publishers was headquartered. It was privately held until the late 1990s when it was sold to Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC, a group of publishing companies held by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, a family owned publishing concern based in Stuttgart, Germany, which owns St. Martin's as well as some U.S. publishing houses, including Farrar, Straus and Giroux (of mostly literary fiction), Holt Publishers (literary non-fiction), and Tor-Forge Books (science fiction, fantasy, and thrillers).