Charles Scribner's Sons
Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City that has published several notable American authors, including Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon Holmes, Don DeLillo, and Edith Wharton. The firm published Scribner's Magazine for many years. More recently, several Scribner titles and authors have garnered Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards and other merits.
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Charles Scribner's Sons

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- 1846
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Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City that has published several notable American authors, including Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon Holmes, Don DeLillo, and Edith Wharton. The firm published Scribner's Magazine for many years. More recently, several Scribner titles and authors have garnered Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards and other merits.
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Overview
Overview
In 1978, the company merged with Atheneum and became The Scribner Book Companies. It merged into Macmillan in 1984. Simon & Schuster bought Macmillan in 1994. After the merger, the Macmillan and Atheneum adult lists were merged into Scribner's, and the Scribner's children list was merged into Atheneum. The trade division, now simply "Scribner", was retained by Simon & Schuster, while the reference division and the trademarks have been owned by Gale since 1999 and Simon & Schuster licensed the Scribner trademark for trade publishing from Gale. The president of Scribner As of 2017 is Susan Moldow (who also held the position of publisher from 1994 to 2012), and the current publisher is Nan Graham.
Key facts
Key facts
• Parent — Simon & Schuster (trade), Gale (reference) • Founder — * Charles Scribner I • Isaac D. Baker • Country — United States • Headquarters — 153–157 Fifth Avenue, New York City, U.S. • Distribution — Worldwide • Publications — Books • Genre — American literature • Imprints — Marysue Rucci • Owner — * Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (trade) • Cengage Group (reference and trademark)
History
History
The firm was founded in 1846 by Charles Scribner I and Isaac D. Baker as "Baker & Scribner." After Baker's death, Scribner bought the remainder of the company and renamed it the "Charles Scribner Company." In 1865, the company first ventured into magazine publishing with Hours at Home. In 1870, the Scribners organized a new firm, Scribner and Company, to publish a magazine entitled Scribner's Monthly. After the death of Charles Scribner I in 1871, his son John Blair Scribner took over as president of the company. His other sons Charles Scribner II and Arthur Hawley Scribner would also join the firm in 1875 and 1884. They each later served as presidents. When the other partners in the venture sold their stake to the family, the company was renamed Charles Scribner's Sons. The company launched St. Nicholas Magazine in 1873 with Mary Mapes Dodge as editor and Frank R. Stockton as assistant editor; it became well known as a children's magazine. When the Scribner family sold the magazine company to outside investors in 1881, Scribner's Monthly was renamed the Century Magazine. The Scribner brothers were enjoined from publishing any magazine for a period. In 1886, at the expiration of this term, they launched Scribner's Magazine. The firm's headquarters were in the Scribner Building, built in 1893, on lower Fifth Avenue at 21st Street, and later in the Charles Scribner's Sons Building, on Fifth Avenue in midtown. Both buildings were designed by Ernest Flagg in a Beaux Arts style. The children's book division was established in 1934 under the leadership of Alice Dalgliesh. It published works by distinguished authors and illustrators including N.C. Wyeth, Robert A. Heinlein, Marcia Brown, Will James, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Leo Politi. Scribner merged with Atheneum in 1978 and into Macmillan Inc. in 1984. In 1994, Macmillan was bought by Simon & Schuster. The reference division along with Charles Scribner's Sons and Scribner trademarks were sold as part of Simon & Schuster's Macmillan Library Reference (MLR) to Pearson in 1998, Pearson resold MLR to Thomson Corporation a year later. Thomson Corporation placed the acquired MLR divisions into Gale. Thomson Learning including Gale became Cengage Group in 2007, Simon & Schuster licensed the Scribner trademarks for trade publishing from Gale. Simon & Schuster reorganized their adult imprints into four divisions in 2012. Scribner became the Scribner Publishing Group and would expand to include Touchstone Books, which had previously been part of Free Press. The other divisions are Atria Publishing Group, Simon & Schuster Publishing Group, and the Gallery Publishing Group. Susan Moldow would lead the new Scribner division as president. As of 2023, the reference division and the trademarks are owned by Cengage Group and the trade division is owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
Presidents
Presidents
• Charles Scribner I (1821–1871), 1846 to 1871 • John Blair Scribner (1850–1879), 1871 to 1879 • Charles Scribner II (1854–1930), 1879 to 1930 • Arthur Hawley Scribner (1859–1932), 1930 to 1932 • Charles Scribner III (1890–1952), 1932 to 1952 • Charles Scribner IV (1921–1995), 1952 to 1984
Notable authors under Charles Scribner II
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Notable authors under Maxwell Perkins and John Hall Wheelock
Notable authors under Simon and Schuster
Names
Names
• Baker & Scribner, until the death of Baker in 1850 • Charles Scribner Company • Charles Scribner's Sons, name retained for the reference division, now part of Gale • Scribner
Bookstores
Bookstores
The Scribner Bookstores are now owned by Barnes & Noble.
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1846
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Charles Scribner's Sons is recorded from 1846.
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