Seymour Lawrence Books
Seymour Lawrence Books was an imprint of Seymour Lawrence at: *Delacorte Press (1965–1983) *E. P. Dutton (1983–1988) *Houghton Mifflin (1988–1994) External links Seymour Lawrence papersat the University of Maryland libraries The University of Maryland Libraries is the largest university library system in the Washington D.C.–Baltimore area. The system includes eight libraries: six are located on the University of Maryland, College Park, College Park campus, while ...

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 ...
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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 (1938–62) 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 acqu ...
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Houghton Mifflin
The asterisk ( ), from Late Latin , from Ancient Greek , , "little star", is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star. Computer scientists and mathematicians often vocalize it as star (as, for example, in ''the A* search algorithm'' or '' C*-algebra''). An asterisk is usually five- or six-pointed in print and six- or eight-pointed when handwritten, though more complex forms exist. Its most common use is to call out a footnote. It is also often used to censor offensive words. In computer science, the asterisk is commonly used as a wildcard character, or to denote pointers, repetition, or multiplication. History The asterisk was already in use as a symbol in ice age cave paintings. There is also a two-thousand-year-old character used by Aristarchus of Samothrace called the , , which he used when proofreading Homeric poetry to mark lines that were duplicated. Origen is known to have also used the asteris ...
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