St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, in the Equitable Building. St. Martin's Press is considered one of the largest English-language publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under six

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. The imprints include St. Martin's Press (mainstream and bestseller books), St. Martin's Griffin (mainstream paperback books, including fiction and nonfiction), Minotaur ( mystery, suspense, and thrillers), Castle Point Books (specialty nonfiction), St. Martin’s Essentials (lifestyle), and Wednesday Books ( young adult fiction). St. Martin's Press's current editor in chief is

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. Jennifer Enderlin was named publisher in 2016.

History

Macmillan Publishers of the UK founded St. Martin's in 1952 and named it after

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in London, where Macmillan Publishers was headquartered. St. Martin's acquired Tor-Forge Books (science fiction, fantasy, and thrillers). In 1995, Macmillan was sold to

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, LLC, a group of publishing companies held by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, a family owned publishing concern based in

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, Germany, which also owns publishing houses including Farrar, Straus and Giroux (of mostly literary fiction),

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(literary non-fiction). Authors published by St. Martin's include

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, Bill O'Reilly, C. J. Box, Linda Castillo, Ann Cleeves, Kristin Hannah, Lynda Lopez, Ben Coes, Louise Penny, Nora Roberts, Rainbow Rowell,

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, Sally Hepworth,

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, and Jocko Willink. It also publishes the ''New York Times'' crossword puzzle books. Its textbook division,

Bedford-St. Martin's Bedford/St. Martin's is an American publishing company specializing in humanities college textbooks. Bedford/St. Martin's is part of the Bedford, Freeman, and Worth Publishing group owned by the Macmillan Publishers, which is in turn owned by t ...

, was founded in 1981. In 1984, St. Martin's became the first major trade-book publisher to release its hardcover books by its in-house mass-market paperback company, St. Martin's Mass Market Paperback Co., Inc.

Imprints

*St. Martin's Press (mainstream and bestseller books) *St. Martin's Griffin (mainstream trade paperback books, including romance) *Minotaur (Mystery, suspense, and thrillers); winners of the St. Martin's Press "Malice Domestic" First Traditional Mystery Contest receive a $10,000 one-book Minotaur publishing contract *Castle Point Books (specialty nonfiction) *St. Martin’s Essentials (Lifestyle) *Wednesday Books ( young adult fiction)

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