Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
Fitzroy Dearborn was an American publisher of academic library reference titles with offices in London and Chicago. It was acquired by Taylor & Francis as an imprint of Routledge Reference in 2002, before Taylor & Francis merged with Informa. At the time of its sale, the company had a backlist of 350 titles.
Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
- Founded
- 1994
- Headquarters
- Chicago
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Fitzroy Dearborn was an American publisher of academic library reference titles with offices in London and Chicago. It was acquired by Taylor & Francis as an imprint of Routledge Reference in 2002, before Taylor & Francis merged with Informa. At the time of its sale, the company had a backlist of 350 titles.
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• Status — Defunct • Founded — 1994 • Founder — Daniel Kirkpatrick and George Walsh • Successor — Routledge • Country — United States • Headquarters — Chicago • Publications — Books • Topics — Reference
History
History
Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers was founded in 1994 by Daniel Kirkpatrick and George Walsh. The company was a publisher of academic library reference titles with offices in London and Chicago. It was acquired by the UK-based Taylor & Francis Group as an imprint of Routledge Reference in 2002. Taylor & Francis itself subsequently merged with Informa. At the time of its sale, the company had a backlist of 350 titles, many of them award-winning.
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Name
The name of the company was derived from the districts of London and Chicago in which its offices were located, Fitzrovia and Dearborn respectively.
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Titles
Fitzroy Dearborn's titles included: • Dictionary of Artists' Models. • Dictionary of Women Artists. • Encyclopedia of African History • Encyclopedia of AIDS. • Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography. • Encyclopedia of the Essay. • Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition. • Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. • Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. • Encyclopedia of Interior Design. • Encyclopedia of Life Writing. • Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English. • Encyclopedia of Mexico. • Encyclopedia of Monasticism. • Encyclopedia of the Novel. • Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. • Encyclopedia of Sculpture. • Encyclopedia of Television. • International Book Publishing An Encyclopedia. • Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. • Reader's Guide to American History. • Reader's Guide to the History of Science. • Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies • Reader's Guide to Literature in English. • Reader's Guide to Military History. • Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences. • Reference Guide to Russian Literature.
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The following is established of the heading itself. Associated with United States. Institutional cataloguing adds that fitzroy Dearborn Publishers is recorded from 1994.
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The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 17 August 2026.
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