Newmarket Publishing and Communications Company, and its publishing arm Newmarket Press, was founded in 1981 by President and Publisher Esther Margolis. Newmarket published about 20-30 mainly non-fiction books a year, primarily in the areas of
childcare
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&
parenting
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, film &
performing arts
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,
psychology
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, health & nutrition, biography, history, business & personal finance, and popular
self-help
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& reference. It was acquired by
HarperCollins
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' It Books in 2011. In 2014, Margolis left HarperCollins to start a new venture, regaining control of the Newmarket Press name and logo.
Newmarket's list included such popular and acclaimed books as the 2 million-copy bestselling ''What's Happening To My Body?'' series of puberty education books for boys and girls by Lynda Madaras;
Suze Orman
Susan Lynn "Suze" Orman ( ; born June 5, 1951) is an American financial advisor, author, and podcast host. In 1987, she founded the Suze Orman Financial Group. Her work as a financial advisor gained notability with ''The Suze Orman Show'', which ...
's ''You've Earned It, Don't Lose It''; biographies of
Condoleezza Rice
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and
Buster Keaton
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;
Daphne Oz
Daphne Nur Oz (born February 17, 1986) is an American television host, food writer, and chef. She was one of five co-hosts on the ABC daytime talk show ''The Chew'' for the show's first six seasons and was a co-host of the syndicated talk/cookin ...
's ''The Dorm Room Diet''; Dr Georgia Witkin's ''The Female Stress Syndrome'' and ''The Male Stress Syndrome'';
Gene Hackman
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& Daniel Lenihan's first novel ''Wake of the Perdido Star''; Stuart Avery Gold's international bestseller ''Ping: A Frog in Search of a New Pond''; and ''Shalom, Friend: The Life and Legacy Of Yitzhak Rabin'' winner of the 1996
National Jewish Book Award
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The Matrix
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Gladiator
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''; ''
Moulin Rouge!
''Moulin Rouge!'' (, ) is a 2001 jukebox musical romantic drama film directed, co-produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. It follows a young English poet, Christian, who falls in love with the star of the Moulin Rouge, cabaret actress and co ...
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'' is a 2000 wuxia film directed by Ang Lee and written for the screen by Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus, and Tsai Kuo-jung . The film features a cast of actors of Chinese ethnicity, including Chow Yun-fat, ...
''; ''
Chicago
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Saving Private Ryan
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''; and ''
Dances With Wolves
''Dances with Wolves'' is a 1990 American epic western film starring, directed, and produced by Kevin Costner in his feature directorial debut. It is a film adaptation of the 1988 novel '' Dances with Wolves'' by Michael Blake that tells the ...
''; and for its acclaimed Newmarket Shooting Script Series, including screenplay books for
Todd Field
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Paul Thomas Anderson
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's ''
Magnolia
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'',
Steven Soderbergh
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Soderbergh's direct ...
's ''
Traffic
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Traffic laws govern and regulate traffic, while rules of the road include traffic ...
Little Miss Sunshine
''Little Miss Sunshine'' is a 2006 American tragicomedy road film and the feature film directorial debut of the husband–wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The screenplay was written by first-time writer Michael Arndt. The film s ...
'',
Alexander Payne
Constantine Alexander Payne (; born February 10, 1961) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for the films ''Citizen Ruth'' (1996), ''Election'' (1999), '' About Schmidt'' (2002), '' Sideways'' (2004), '' The D ...
's ''
Sideways
''Sideways'' is a 2004 American comedy-drama road film directed by Alexander Payne and written by Jim Taylor and Payne. A film adaptation of Rex Pickett's 2004 novel of the same name, ''Sideways'' follows two men in their forties, Miles Raymo ...
'',
Charlie Kaufman
Charles Stuart Kaufman (; born November 19, 1958) is an American filmmaker and novelist. He wrote the films '' Being John Malkovich'' (1999), '' Adaptation'' (2002), and '' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'' (2004). He made his directorial ...
's ''
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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'',
Allan Ball
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Frank Darabont
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's ''
The Shawshank Redemption
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'', among others.
Leadership
Esther Margolis is an
American
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** American ancestry, pe ...
publisher, and president and majority owner of Newmarket Publishing and Communications and Newmarket Press, which she founded. Prior to Newmarket, Margolis spent 17 years at
Bantam Books
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where she served as its first senior vice president for marketing, publicity and communications. Margolis was born in
Detroit
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,
Michigan
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. She earned her B.A. in Education and M.A. in English from the
University of Michigan
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. She was married to Dr. Stanley Fisher—a psychologist and the author of ''Discovering The Power of Self-Hypnosis''—until his death in 2009. Margolis currently resides in both New York City and Amagansett,
Long Island
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Bill Clinton
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