Little, Brown and Company is a publishing house established by Charles Coffin Little and his partner, James Brown. The company traces its history back to a bookstore founded by Ebenezer Battelle in 1784, on the former Marlborough Street, Boston. Little and Brown, partners in the bookstore and former clerks, founded their company in 1837 (as Charles C. Little and James Brown), and were joined a year later by Augustus Flagg, who took over as managing partner after the death of Little in 1869 (James Brown had died in 1855). In 1847 the firm's name was changed to Little, Brown and Company. This article is concerned with the production of books, magazines, and other literary material (whether in printed or electronic formats). ... Charles Coffin Little (1799 - 1869), was a U.S. publisher. ... A bookstore. ... 1784 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Boston is a town and small port c. ... | Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1837 - 1901) 1837 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1869 (MDCCCLXIX) is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...

The firm initially specialized in legal treatises and and imported titles. Even so, in the early years Little and Brown published William H. Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella, Jones Very's first book of poetry (edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson}, Letters of John Adams and works by James Russell Lowell and Francis Parkman. In 1853 Little, Brown began publishing the works of British poets fromn Chaucer to Wordsworth. There were ninety-six volumes published in the series in five years. William Hickling Prescott (May 4, 1796 - January 29, 1859) was a historian. ... Jones Very (1813 - 1880) was an essayist, trancendentalist, tutor in Greek at Harvard, and, after he proclaimed himself the second coming of Christ, a resident at McLean’s Asylum. ... Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was a famous American essayist and one of the United States most influential thinkers and writers. ... John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was the first (1789–1797) Vice President of the United States, and the second (1797–1801) President of the United States. ... James Russell Lowell circa 1855. ... Francis Parkman Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893) was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts. ... Chaucer: Illustration from Cassells History of England, circa 1902. ... William Wordsworth, English poet William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850) was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads. ...

In 1859 John Bartlett became a partner in the firm. He held the rights to his Familiar Quotations, and Little, Brown published the 15th edition of the work in 1980, 125 years after its first publication. There are several men named John Bartlett, among them: John Bartlett, 1855-1905, who began Bartletts Familiar Quotations. ... Bartletts Familiar Quotations, often simply called Bartletts, is an American reference work that is the longest-lived and most widely distributed collection of quotations. ...

John Murray Brown, James Brown's son, took over when Augustus Flagg retired in 1884. In the 1890s Little, Brown expanded into general publishing, including fiction. In 1896 it published Quo Vadis. In 1898 Little, Brown purchased a list of titles from the Roberts Brothers firm. This brought Edward Everett Hale, Helen Hunt Jackson and Louisa May Alcott into association with the firm. Quo Vadis is a novel by a Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz, describing the introduction of Christianity into early A.D. Rome (while under Neros rule). ... Statue of Edward Everett Hale in Boston Public Garden, by Bela Pratt. ... Helen Maria Hunt Jackson (October 18, 1831-August 12, 1885) was an American writer. ... Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, best known for the novel Little Women, which she wrote in 1868. ...

John Murray Brown died in 1908 and James W. McIntyre became managing partner. When McIntyre died in 1913, Little, Brown incorporated. In 1925 Little, Brown entered into an agreement to publish all Atlantic Monthly books. This arrangement lasted until 1985. During this time the joint Atlantic Monthly Press/Little Brown imprint published James Truslow Adams's The Adams Family, Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall's Bounty trilogy, James Hilton's Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Walter D. Edmonds's Drums Along the Mohawk. The Atlantic Monthly (also known as The Atlantic) is an American literary/cultural magazine that was founded in November 1857. ... James Truslow Adams (1878 - 1949) was a U.S. historian. ... Charles Bernard Nordhoff (1887 - 1947) was a U.S. (English-born) novelist and traveler. ... James Norman Hall (April 22, 1887 - July 5, 1951) was a U.S. author. ... Mutiny on the Bounty is the title of a novel and several films based on the Mutiny on the Bounty, the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of HMAV Bounty in 1789. ... James Hilton (September 9, 1900 - December 20, 1954) was a popular English novelist of the first half of the 20th century. ... Goodbye, Mr. ... Walter Wat Dumaux Edmonds (July 15, 1903 - January 24, 1998) was an American author noted for his historical novels, including the popular Drums Along the Mohawk of 1936 which was later made into a movie. ... Drums Along the Mohawk is an historical novel of the American Revolution written by Walter D. Edmonds. ...

Other prominent authors publish by Little, Brown in the 20th century have included Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front), A. J. Cronin, C. S. Forester, Evelyn Waugh, John P. Marquand, Ogden Nash, Oliver Wendell Holmes, P. G. Wodehouse, J. D. Salinger, Norman Mailer, Bruce Catton, Edwin O'Connor, Catherine Drinker Bowen, J. Frank Dobie, John Fowles, Lillian Hellman, Herman Wouk, Henry Kissinger, Donald Barthelme, Hortense Calisher, Peter De Vries, Gore Vidal, William Manchester and William H. Masters and Virginia Johnson. They also published the photography of Ansel Adams. Erich Remarque, about 1963. ... All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I, about the horrors of that war and also the deep detachment from German civilian life felt by many men returning from the front. ... A. J. Cronin is the pen-name of the Scottish novelist Archibald Joseph Cronin (July 19, 1896-January 9, 1981). ... The cover of the 1974 paperback edition of one of Foresters non-fiction titles: Hunting The Bismarck Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (August 27, 1899 – April 2, 1966), an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of adventure with military themes. ... Evelyn Waugh, as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten Arthur Evelyn St. ... John Phillips Marquand (November 10, 1893 - July 16, 1960 ) was a 20th-century American novelist. ... Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet best known for writing pithy, funny, light verse. ... Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. ... P. G. Wodehouse, pictured in 1904, became famous for his complex plots, ingenious wordplay, and prolific output Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975) (pronounced as WOOD-house) was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. ... Cover of Salingers daughters memoir, featuring a rare photo of J.D. Jerome David Salinger (born January 1, 1919) is an American author best known for The Catcher in the Rye, a classic coming-of-age novel that has enjoyed enduring popularity since its publication in 1951. ... Norman Mailer, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American writer and, along with Truman Capote, is considered an innovator of the nonfictional novel. ... Bruce Catton (October 9, 1899 — August 28, 1978) was a journalist and a notable historian of the American Civil War. ... Edwin OConnor (1918 - 1968) was an American journalist and novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1962 for The Edge of Sadness (1961). ... James Frankie Dobie (September 26, 1888–September 18, 1964) was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the days of the open range. ... John Fowles is an English novelist and essayist. ... Lillian Hellman Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American playwright, romantically involved for thirty years with mystery and crime writer Dashiell Hammett. ... Herman Wouk (born May 27, 1915) is a bestselling American author, with a number of notable novels to his credit, including The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance. ... Henry Kissinger circa 1970s. ... Donald Barthelme (April 7, 1931 - July 23, 1989) was an American author of short fiction and novels. ... Peter De Vries (born February 27, 1910 in Chicago, Illinois; died September 28, 1993 in Norwalk, Connecticut) was an American editor and novelist known for his satiric wit. ... Gore Vidal, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3, 1925), known simply as Gore Vidal, is a well-known American writer of novels, plays and essays, and has been a public figure for over fifty years. ... William Manchester William Manchester (April 1, 1922–June 1, 2004) was a historian and biographer, notable as the author of 18 books that have been translated into 20 languages. ... Time magazine, May 25, 1970 Gynecologist William Howell Masters (December 27, 1915 – February 16, 2001) and Virginia Eshelman Johnson (born February 11, 1925) pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual disorders and dysfunctions from 1957 until the 1990s. ... The Tetons - Snake River (1942) by Ansel Adams Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer born in San Francisco. ...

The imprint is now part of the Time Warner Book Group, having been bought by Time Inc. in 1968. TWBG, with offices in New York, Boston, Indiana, Nashville and Los Angeles, includes the imprints Warner Books, Little, Brown & Co. ... Time Inc. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...

References

• Oliver, Bill (1986) Little, Brown and Company, in Peter Dzwonkonski, Ed. Dictionary of Literary Biography - Volume Forty-nine - American Literary Publishing Houses, 1638 - 1899 Part 1: A-M. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company. ISBN 0-8103-1727-3

Nickname: The Motor City, Motown Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (Latin for, We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes) Official website: http://www. ...

External link

• A Time Warner page, with brief historical notes