Dundurn Press is one of the largest Canadian-owned
book publishing companies
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of adult fiction and non-fiction. The company publishes Canadian
literature
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,
history
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,
biography
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, politics and arts. Dundurn has about 2500 books in print, and averages around one hundred new titles each year. Dundurn Press was established in 1972 by Kirk Howard. In 2009, Dundurn forged a co-publishing partnership with the Ontario Genealogical Society, and in 2011, Dundurn purchased Napoleon & Company and Blue Butterfly Books. In 2013, Dundurn acquired Thomas Allen Publishers, the publishing branch of
Thomas Allen & Son Limited. Thomas Allen & Son Limited is a Canadian
book distributor
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, and remains Canada's oldest family-owned and operated distributor, having been in continuous operation for over 90 years. Dundurn Press authors include
Lincoln Alexander
Lincoln MacCauley Alexander (January 21, 1922 – October 19, 2012) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first Black Canadian to be a Member of Parliament (Canada), member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada, House o ...
,
Linda McQuaig
Linda Joy McQuaig (born September 1951) is a Canadian journalist, columnist, author and social critic. She worked as a reporter investigating the Patti Starr affair. She wrote books and newspaper columns focusing on corporate influence in econ ...
,
Ted Barris
Ted Barris (born July 12, 1949, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian writer, journalist, professor and broadcaster. He writes a weekly column, "The Barris Beat", and is a regular contributor to ''The Globe and Mail'' and the ''National Post''. His ...
,
Michael Coren
Michael Coren (born 15 January 1959) is a British-Canadian writer and clergyman. A long-time television personality, Coren hosted '' The Michael Coren Show'' on the Crossroads Television System from 1999 to 2011 before moving to the Sun News ...
,
Xue Yiwei
Xue Yiwei (, born in 1964) is a Chinese-born Canadian author.
His hometown is Changsha, Hunan, and his birthplace was Chenzhou in the same province. He attended the Beijing University of Aeronautics (now Beihang University) in a computer science ...
, and
Austin Clarke.
In January 2019, Howard sold Dundurn Press to a consortium of Canadian technology investors. They hired Kwame Scott Fraser as publisher, and Howard became publisher emeritus. Acquiring editor
Russell Smith launched a new imprint for literary fiction and memoir called ''Rare Machines''.
Kirk Howard died of Parkinson's disease in June 2023.
In February 2024, Fraser changed roles within the firm, and Meghan Macdonald was named publisher.
References
External links
Dundurn Press website
Book publishing companies of Canada
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