Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Photo credit: Grace Villamil
Founder Result of merger of Grove Press and Atlantic Monthly Press
Country of origin United States
Headquarters location 154 W. 14th Street, New York City, New York 10011
Distribution Publishers Group West
Key people Morgan Entrekin (president and publisher)
Publication types Books
Imprints Includes Grove Press, Atlantic Monthly Press, Mysterious Press
Official website groveatlantic.com

Grove Atlantic, Inc. is an American independent publisher, based in New York City, New York, that was formed in 1993 by the merger of Grove Press and Atlantic Monthly Press.

History and operations

The company's imprints, which include Grove Press, Atlantic Monthly Press, The Mysterious Press, and Black Cat publish literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama and translations. Former imprints include Canongate U.S. and Open City.[1]

Its notable authors include John Bloom, Kathy Acker, Samuel Beckett, Mark Bowden, William S. Burroughs, Frantz Fanon, Charles Frazier, Jim Harrison, Henry Miller, Kenzaburo Oe, Harold Pinter, Kay Ryan, John Kennedy Toole, and Jeanette Winterson.

The company's president and publisher is Morgan Entrekin.[2] In 2015, Entrekin working with other publishers, booksellers, and literati introduced Literary Hub, an online website for the literary world.[3]

The company's imprints published the books by the 2006 and 2007 recipients of the Man Booker Prize: The Inheritance of Loss (Hamish Hamilton / Atlantic Monthly Press) by Kiran Desai; and The Gathering (Jonathan Cape / Black Cat) by Anne Enright, respectively.[4]

Since 2010, the British publishing house Atlantic Books has been publishing a selection of books on behalf of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. in the United Kingdom, using the "Grove Press UK" imprint.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.groveatlantic.com/
  2. ↑ Méndez, Teresa (January 14, 2004). "The Publisher as Protagonist – In an Industry Dominated by Big Firms, Grove/Atlantic Chief Morgan Entrekin Is a Small-House Standard Bearer for an Aarlier Age, a Writers' Hero in Pursuit of Real Literature (and an Artful Blockbuster or Two Along the Way)". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved February 16, 2013.
  3. ↑ Jennifer Maloney (February 5, 2015). "Literary Hub Is a New Home for Book Lovers". WSJ.
  4. ↑ "Man Booker Awards". Bookreporter.com. 2007. Retrieved January 8, 2009. External link in |publisher= (help)
  5. ↑ "Who We Are". Atlantic Books. Retrieved August 26, 2011.

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