Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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| Parent company | Macmillan Publishers |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1946 (1946) |
| Founder | John C. Farrar Roger W. Straus, Jr. |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York, New York |
| Distribution | Macmillan (US) Melia Publishing Services (UK)[1] |
| Key people | Jonathan Galassi |
| Imprints | Hill & Wang, North Point, Sarah Crichton, Scientific American, MCD, FSG Originals |
| Official website | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. and John C. Farrar.[2] FSG is known for publishing literary books, and its authors have won numerous awards, including Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, and Nobel Peace Prizes. The publisher is currently a division of Macmillan, whose parent company is the German publishing conglomerate Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.[3]
Contents
1 Founding
2 Merger
3 Sale
4 Name history
5 Current imprints
6 Imprint
7 Bibliography
8 Books for Young Readers
9 Awards
10 Notable authors
11 Staff
12 References
13 Further reading
14 External links
Founding
Farrar, Straus, and Company was founded in 1945[4] by Roger W. Straus, Jr. and John C. Farrar.[2][5] The first book was Yank: The G.I. Story of the War, a compilation of articles that appeared in Yank, the Army Weekly, then There Were Two Pirates, a novel by James Branch Cabell
The first years of existence were rough until they published the diet book Look Younger, Live Longer by Gayelord Hauser in 1950. The book went on to sell 500,000 copies and Straus said that the book carried them along for awhile.[2] In the early years, Straus and his wife Dorothea, went prospecting for books in Italy. It was there that they found the memoir Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi and other rising Italian authors Alberto Moravia, Giovanni Guareschi and Cesare Pavese.[2] Farrar, Straus also poached or lured away authors from other publishers—one was Edmund Wilson who was unhappy with Random House at the time but remained with Farrar, Straus for the remainder of his career.[2]
In 1950, the name changed to Farrar, Straus & Young (for Stanley Young, a playwright, author (at Farrar & Rinehart,[6]) a literary critic for the New York Times, and an original stockholder and board member)[7][8][9]
Merger
In 1953, Pellegrini & Cudahy merged with Farrar, Straus & Young.[10]
Robert Giroux joined the company in 1955 and after he later became a partner, the name was changed to Farrar, Straus and Giroux.[2] Giroux had been working for Harcourt and had been angered when Harcourt refused to allow him to publish Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.[2] Giroux brought many literary authors with him including Thomas Merton, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Flannery O'Connor, Jack Kerouac, Peter Taylor, Randall Jarrell, T.S. Eliot, and Bernard Malamud.[2] Alan Williams described Giroux's 'Pied Piper sweep' as "almost certainly the greatest number of authors to follow, on their own initiative, a single editor from house to house in the history of modern publishing."[2] In 1964, Straus named Giroux chairman of the board and officially added Giroux's name to the publishing company.[2]
Sale
Straus continued to run the company for twenty years after his partner Farrar died, until 1993 when he sold a majority interest of the company to the privately owned German publishing conglomerate Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.[2] Straus offered FSG to the Holtzbrinck family because of their reputation for publishing serious works of literature.[2]
Jonathan Galassi is president and publisher.[11] Andrew Mandel joined in 2004 as deputy publisher. Eric Chinski is editor-in-chief. In 2008, Mitzi Angel came from Fourth Estate in the UK to be publisher of the Faber and Faber Inc. imprint. Other notable editors include Sean McDonald, Ileene Smith, Alex Star, Amanda Moon, and Sarah Crichton (eponymous publisher of her own imprint).
In February 2015 FSG and Faber and Faber announced the end of their partnership. All books scheduled for release and previously released under the imprint will be moved to the FSG colophon by August 2016.[12]
Name history
- Farrar, Straus, and Company (1945-1951)[13]
- Farrar, Straus and Young (1950-1956)[14][15]
- Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (1953-1963)[16][17] - acquired L.C. Page & Co. in 1957[18][19][20]
- Farrar, Straus, and Company (1963-1964)[21] after Cudahy left the firm.[11]
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1964-present)[22]
Current imprints
Faber and Faber Inc. publishes a backlist of drama and books on the arts, entertainment, music, pop culture, cultural criticism, and the media. Its authors include David Auburn, Margaret Edson, Doug Wright, Richard Greenberg, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Neil LaBute, Peter Conrad, Martin Eisenstadt and Courtney Love.
Hill and Wang[23][24] publishes books of academic interest and specializes in history. Its authors include Roland Barthes, William Cronon, Langston Hughes, and Elie Wiesel.- Sarah Crichton Books publishes books with a slightly commercial bent. The imprint launched with Cathleen Falsani's The God Factor in 2006. Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone was a bestseller and a Starbucks featured book in 2007.[25][26]
- North Point Press published literary nonfiction with an emphasis on natural history, travel, ecology, music, food, and cultural criticism. Its authors include Peter Matthiessen, Beryl Markham, Guy Davenport, A. J. Liebling, Margaret Visser, Wendell Berry, and M. F. K. Fisher.
- Scientific American / FSG,[27] led by Amanda Moon, publishes non-fiction popular science books for the general reader. Its authors include Jesse Bering, Daniel Chamovitz, Kevin Dutton, and Caleb Scharf.
- MCD/FSG, which is viewed as a kind of a lab to experiment with new styles and genres. The imprint is headed by Sean McDonald, who is joined by Daphne Durham, formerly editor-in-chief and publisher of Amazon Publishing, as executive director.[28][29]
Imprint
- Noonday Press[21]
Bibliography
Books for Young Readers
FSG Books for Young Readers publishes National Book Award winners Madeleine L'Engle (1980), William Steig (1983), Louis Sachar (1998), and Polly Horvath (2003). Books for Young Readers also publishes Natalie Babbitt, Roald Dahl, Jack Gantos, George Selden, Uri Shulevitz, and Peter Sis.
Awards
- Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Knut Hamsun (1920)
Hermann Hesse (1946)
T. S. Eliot (1948)
Pär Lagerkvist (1951)
François Mauriac (1952)
Juan Ramón Jiménez (1956)
Salvatore Quasimodo (1959)
Nelly Sachs (1966)
Yasunari Kawabata (1968)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1970)
Pablo Neruda (1971)
Eugenio Montale (1975)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978)
Czesław Miłosz (1980)
Elias Canetti (1981)
William Golding (1983)
Wole Soyinka (1986)
Joseph Brodsky (1987)
Camilo José Cela (1989)
Nadine Gordimer (1991)
Derek Walcott (1992)
Seamus Heaney (1995)
Mario Vargas Llosa (2010)
- Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize
Norman Angell (1933)[30]
Elie Wiesel (1986)[31]
- Winners of the Pulitzer Prize
John Berryman (1965)
Bernard Malamud (1967)
Jean Stafford (1970)
Robert Lowell (1974)
Paul Horgan (1976)
Lanford Wilson (1980)
James Schuyler (1981)
Charles Fuller (1982)
Marsha Norman (1983)
Thomas L. Friedman (1983, 1988, 2002)
Oscar Hijuelos (1990)
Charles Wright (1998)
Michael Cunningham (1999)
John McPhee (1999)
Margaret Edson (1999)
C. K. Williams (2000)
David Auburn (2001)
Louis Menand (2002)
Jeffrey Eugenides (2003)
Paul Muldoon (2003)
Doug Wright (2004)
Marilynne Robinson (2005)
Elizabeth A. Fenn (2015)
- Winners of the National Book Award
Bernard Malamud (1959, 1967)
Robert Lowell (1960)
John Berryman (1969)
Elizabeth Bishop (1970)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1970, 1974)
Donald Barthelme (1972)
Flannery O'Connor (1972)
Richard B. Sewall (1975)
Michael J. Arlen (1976)
Tom Wolfe (1980)
Paula Fox (1983)
Larry Heinemann (1987)
Thomas L. Friedman (1989)
Alice McDermott (1998)
Edward Ball (1998)
Susan Sontag (2000)
Jonathan Franzen (2001)
Shirley Hazzard (2003)
C. K. Williams (2003)
Richard Powers (2006)
Denis Johnson (2007)
George Packer (2013)
Louise Glück (2014)
Evan Osnos (2014)
Notable authors
- Bernard Malamud
- Carlo Levi
- Denis Johnson
- Edmund Wilson
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Jack Kerouac
- Joan Didion
- John Berryman
- Jonathan Franzen
- Joseph Brodsky
- Flannery O'Connor
- Madeleine L'Engle
- Peter Taylor
- Randall Jarrell
- Robert Lowell
- Scott Turow
- T.S. Eliot
- Thomas Merton
- Tom Wolfe
- Walker Percy
- John McPhee
- Daniel Nadler
Staff
Jack Kerouac's then-girlfriend Joyce Johnson, started work in 1957, when Sheila Cudahy was a partner at the firm.[32]
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Further reading
Kachka, Boris (2013). Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781451691894. OCLC 1043510072 – via Google Books.
External links
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux on Twitter
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers
- Work in Progress, an Online Magazine by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Collection of Isaac Bashevis Singer Papers at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
"Guide to the Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. Records" (PDF). Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library.
