Charles Scribner's Sons

Called Charles Scribner's Sons, also Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York, which includes works by such renowned and well-known authors such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon Holmes and Edith Wharton published. To the days include numerous authors who have won awards with Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards and other awards. The publishing house was for many years out also the magazine Scribner 's Magazine.

In 1978 the publishing house merged with Atheneum and then operated under the name The Scribner Book Companies. This company in turn was converted into Macmillan additional acquisitions in 1984.

Simon & Schuster bought Macmillan in 1994. The original company name Sribner Charles Scribner 's Sons was shortened to and was used at this time only for individual parts of the publishing program.

History

The publishing house was founded in 1846 by Charles Scribner and Isaac D. Baker as " Baker & Scribner ." After Baker's death Charles Scribner bought on its shares and renamed the company into " Charles Scribner Company". Published in 1865, the publishing house for the first time, a magazine, which was called the Hours at Home.

1870 reasons tete Scribner another subsidiary company, namely Scribner and Company, who issued a magazine entitled Scribner 's Monthly. After the death of the company founder in 1871, his son John Blair Scribner took over the company. Charles Scribner's other two sons, Charles Scribner II and Arthur Hawley Scribner entered in 1875 or 1884. Both should run the company later. After other minority shareholders had sold their shares to the brothers, the company in Charles Scribner's Sons has been renamed.

As of 1873 gave Scribner's also a children's magazine out. Managing editor was Mary Mapes Dodge, Frank R. Stockton assisted her. 1881 initially sold the Scribner family all parts of the company, who were engaged in the publication of magazines. At the same time the company to issue any additional magazines or journals over the period of 5 years committed. With this lock-up period expires, they started the magazine Scribner 's Magazine surrendered. Headquarters of the company was in 1893, the Scribner Building, later the Charles Scribner's Sons Building. Both buildings located in Manhattan designed by architect Ernest Flagg in the style of Beaux -Arts architecture.

The Scribner's developed into a major publishing house of the American literary scene, also the editor Maxwell Perkins is due to. The Fitzgerald expert Matthew J. Bruccoli described Perkins as the only lecturer in the history of American literature, is known to most students of American Studies. Perkins was set in 1910 as a lecturer. Scribner's was at the time, to the Perkins joined the band to the publishing house, especially for his publications from reputable and established American authors such as John Galsworthy, Henry James and Edith Wharton known. Although Perkins appreciated this classic of American literature, it seemed to him, however, keen to discover new talents. His first great discovery was F. Scott Fitzgerald. Perkins had expressed an interest in Fitzgerald's first novel manuscript The Romantic Egotist, but had both the first draft in August 1918 and the revised version on his suggestions towards decline in October 1918. Perkins, however, managed to convince his colleagues publisher of the third version, whose title Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise had changed ( this side of paradise ), and in September 1919, the novel by Scribner's was accepted. This side of paradise was well discussed by the literature review, the sales success of denoted Fitzgerald's biographer Scott Donaldson as by any standards, remarkable. The portrait of the young generation after the end of the First World War and in particular of the flapper and her emancipated life made ​​the only 23 -year-old Fitzgerald famous overnight. The publication of the novel featured at the same time the emergence of a new generation of authors, whose name was associated with Perkins.

Perkins was also the editor of Fitzgerald's third novel, The Great Gatsby ( The Great Gatsby ), which today is classified as one of the greatest works of American modernism. By Fitzgerald Perkins also got to know the young Ernest Hemingway and published in 1926 his first major novel, The Sun Also Rises. With its occasional coarse language of this novel at the time was a bold book and Perkins had to be used within its publishing very much for this work. The commercial success of Hemingway's next novel, A Farewell to Arms (1929 ), which was a huge sales success, Perkins strengthened position as a lecturer within Scribners.

Perkins also proofread the work of Thomas Wolfe. He was the first, JP Marquand and Erskine Caldwell ( Tobacco Road (1932 ), God's Little Acre (1933 ) ) published. He was also responsible for the great success of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, whose first novel, The Yearling ( 1938) arose on the basis of proposals from Perkins. The novel was an instant bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country (1946 ) was another novel, which was discovered by Perkins. The penultimate discovery of his life was the author James Jones, who in 1945 was approached Perkins. Perkins persuaded Jones to abandon the work on the novel on which he was working on and encouraged him to begin work on the piece that in 1951 under the title From Here to Eternity. Perkins health was already under attack at this time and he experienced neither this success yet the success of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea ( 1952), which was dedicated to him. Perkins last literary discovery was Marguerite Young, who had begun their monumental work Miss MacIntosh, My Darling with his encouragement in 1947. Only on the basis of a 40 -page novel design he had signed a contract with her. The novel was published finally in 1965.

The publishing part, the published children's books, was founded in 1934 and was led by Alice Dalgliesh. This part of the publishing house published works by well-known authors and illustrators. These include, among others, N.C. Wyeth, Robert A. Heinlein, Marcia Brown, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Leo Politi.

Since 2011, the Verlaugshaus the CBS Corporation, a.

Head of the company

  • Charles Scribner I (1821-1871), 1846 to 1871
  • John Blair Scribner (1850-1879), 1871 to 1879
  • Charles Scribner II (1854-1930), 1879 to?
  • Arthur Hawley Scribner (1859-1932), circa 1900
  • Charles Scribner III (1890-1952), 1932 to 1952
  • Charles Scribner IV (1921-1995), 1952 to 1984

Company names

  • Baker & Scribner ( used until the death of co-founder Bakers in 1850 ),
  • Charles Scribner Company
  • Charles Scribner's Sons
  • Scribner
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