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Merloyd Lawrence Books
Merloyd Lawrence Books was an imprint of Merloyd Ludington Lawrence at: *Seymour Lawrence/ Delacorte Press (1965–1982) *Addison-Wesley (1982–1997) *Perseus Books Group Perseus Books Group was an American publishing company founded in 1996 by investor Frank Pearl. Perseus acquired the trade publishing division of Addison-Wesley (including the Merloyd Lawrence imprint) in 1997. It was named Publisher of the Ye ... (1997-2022) References {{sia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seymour Lawrence
Seymour Lawrence (1926–1994) was an American publisher, first with the Atlantic Monthly Press, and later with his own imprint, Seymour Lawrence, Inc. Early life and career Seymour Lawrence was born on 11 February 1926 in New York City, to Jack and Sophie L. Lawrence. He attended Harvard University, where he was the editor of the literary magazine ''Wake'', and graduated in 1948. He worked briefly as a representative for the Van Nostrand Company before joining the Atlantic Monthly Press in 1950. By 1952, he had reached the rank of associate editor. In 1964, he joined Alfred A. Knopf Inc. as editorial vice president. In 1965, he launched his own imprint, Seymour Lawrence, Inc. The imprint operated as a division of Dell Publishing for seventeen years, until Dell declined to re-new their co-publishing agreement. Lawrence's imprint moved to E. P. Dutton from 1982 to 1988, and in 1988 became a division of Houghton Mifflin. As a publisher, he was known for his work with a number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delacorte Press
Dell Publishing Company, Inc. is an American publisher of books, magazines and comic books, that was founded in 1921 by George T. Delacorte Jr. with $10,000 (approx. $145,000 in 2021), two employees and one magazine title, ''I Confess'', and soon began turning out dozens of pulp magazines, which included penny-a-word detective stories, articles about films, and romance books (or "smoochies" as they were known in the slang of the day). During the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, Dell was one of the largest publishers of magazines, including pulp magazines. Their line of humor magazines included '' 1000 Jokes'', launched in 1938. From 1929 to 1974, they published comics under the Dell Comics line, the bulk of which (1938–68) was done in partnership with Western Publishing. In 1943, Dell entered into paperback book publishing with Dell Paperbacks. They also used the book imprints of Dial Press, Delacorte Books, Delacorte Press, Yearling Books, and Laurel Leaf Library. Dell was acquire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Addison-Wesley
Addison-Wesley is an American publisher of textbooks and computer literature. It is an imprint of Pearson PLC, a global publishing and education company. In addition to publishing books, Addison-Wesley also distributes its technical titles through the O'Reilly Online Learning e-reference service. Addison-Wesley's majority of sales derive from the United States (55%) and Europe (22%). The Addison-Wesley Professional Imprint produces content including books, eBooks, and video for the professional IT worker including developers, programmers, managers, system administrators. Classic titles include ''The Art of Computer Programming'', ''The C++ Programming Language'', ''The Mythical Man-Month'', and ''Design Patterns''. History Lew Addison Cummings and Melbourne Wesley Cummings founded Addison-Wesley in 1942, with the first book published by Addison-Wesley being Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Francis Weston Sears' ''Mechanics''. Its first computer book was ''Progr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |