Henry Holt and 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 |
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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.[1] 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.
History
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.
Henry Holt and Company merged in 1960 with Rinehart & Company and the John C. Winston Company to become Holt, Rinehart and Winston. CBS purchased the company in 1967. But in 1985 the group split, and the retail publishing arm along with the Holt name was sold to the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group based in Stuttgart, which has retained Holt as a subsidiary publishing under its original name and in the US it is part of Macmillan Publishers. The educational publishing arm, which retained the Holt, Rinehart and Winston name, was sold to Harcourt.