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Farrar, Straus and Giroux is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. and John Farrar. Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view Roger Williams Straus Jr ( January 3, 1917 – May 25, 2004) was co-founder and chairman of Farrar Straus and Giroux, a New Known primarily as Farrar, Straus in its first decade of existence, the company was renamed several times, including Farrar, Straus and Young and Farrar, Straus and Cudahy and finally to its current name some time after hiring Robert Giroux from rival Harcourt, Brace, who brought with him such important writers as T. S. Eliot and Flannery O'Connor. Robert Giroux ( April 8, 1914 – September 5, 2008) was an American book editor and publisher Harcourt Trade Publishers is a US Publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for children and adults Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965 was a poet Dramatist, and Literary critic. Mary Flannery O'Connor ( March 25 1925 &ndash August 3 1964) was an American Novelist, Short-story Straus continued to run the company for twenty years after his partner Farrar died, until 1993 when he sold a majority interest of the company to the privately owned German publishing conglomerate Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck is a Stuttgart -based Publishing holding company which owns publishing companies worldwide Nevertheless, FSG is considered one of the last of the old-fashioned literary publishers and is widely celebrated for its renowned lines of literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry, and children's literature.

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Current imprints

Books for Young Readers

FSG Books for Young Readers publishes National Book Award winners Madeleine L'Engle (1980), William Steig (1983), Louis Sachar (1998), and Polly Horvath (2003). The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. Madeleine L'Engle ( November 29 1918 &ndash September 6 2007) was an American writer best known for her Young Adult fiction William Steig (November 14 1907 – October 3 2003 was a prolific American Cartoonist, sculptor and later in life an author of popular Children's literature Louis Sachar (ˈsækɚ or "Sacker" (born March 20, 1954) is an American Author of children's books who is best known for Polly Horvath (born 30 January 1957, Kalamazoo Michigan) is an American author Books for Young Readers also publishes Natalie Babbitt, Roald Dahl, Jack Gantos, George Selden, Uri Shulevitz, and Peter Sis. Natalie Babbitt (born Dayton Ohio, July 28, 1932) is a US author and illustrator of children's books Roald Dahl ( 13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British Novelist Short story Writer Jack Gantos (born July 2 1951) (real name John Bryan Gantos Jr George Selden may refer to George B Selden, American inventor George Selden (author, American children's writer Uri Shulevitz (b February 27, 1935) is an American author and illustrator

Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize

Winners of the Pulitzer Prize

Winners of the National Book Award

  • Bernard Malamud (1959, 1967)
  • Robert Lowell (1960)
  • John Berryman (1969)
  • Elizabeth Bishop (1970)
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer (1970, 1974)
  • Donald Barthelme (1972)
  • Flannery O'Connor (1972)
  • Richard B. Sewall (1975)
  • Michael J. The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur is awarded annually since 1901 to an author from any country who has in the words from the will of Alfred Knut Hamsun, born Knud Pedersen ( August 4, 1859 - February 19, 1952) was a Norwegian author. Hermann Hesse (ˈhɛʀman ˈhɛsə ( 2 July, 1877 — 9 August, 1962) was a German - Swiss poet novelist and painter Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965 was a poet Dramatist, and Literary critic. Pär Fabian Lagerkvist ( May 23, 1891 — July 11, 1974) was a Swedish François Mauriac ( October 11, 1885 — September 1, 1970) was a French Author; member of the Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón ( Moguer, Spain, 24 December, 1881 – Santurce, Puerto Rico, 29 May, 1958 Salvatore Quasimodo ( August 20, 1901 - June 14, 1968) was an Italian author Nelly Sachs, ( 10 December, 1891 – 12 May, 1970) was a German Poet and Dramatist whose Nazi experience was a Japanese Short story writer and novelist whose spare lyrical subtly-shaded prose won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968 the first Japanese author Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ( Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын) (December 11 1918 – August 3 2008 was a Russian Novelist Pablo Neruda ( July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973) was the pen name and later legal name of the Chilean writer and politician Eugenio Montale ( October 12, 1896 — September 12, 1981) was an Italian Poet, prose writer editor and translator Isaac Bashevis Singer (יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער (November 21 1902 (see notes below – July 24 1991 was a Nobel Prize -winning Polish -born Czesław Miłosz; ( June 30, 1911 — August 14, 2004) was a Polish Poet, prose writer and Translator Elias Canetti ( 25 July 1905, Rousse, Bulgaria – 14 August 1994, Zurich, Switzerland) was a Sir William Gerald Golding ( 19 September, 1911 – 19 June, 1993) was a British novelist poet and Nobel Prize for Literature Joseph Brodsky ( May 24, 1940 — January 28, 1996) born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Иосиф Александрович Бродский Don Camilo José Cela Trulock Marquis of Iria Flavia (Don Camilo José Cela Trulock marqués de Iria Flavia ( May 11, 1916 — January Nadine Gordimer (born 20 November 1923 is a South African Writer, Political activist and Nobel laureate. Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a West Indies poet playwright writer and visual artist who writes mainly in English. The Nobel Peace Prize ( Swedish, Danish and Nobels fredspris is one of five Nobel Prizes Bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Sir Ralph Norman Angell (born 26 December 1872 and died 7 October 1967) was an English lecturer writer and Member of Parliament The Pulitzer Prize, ˈpʊlɨtsɚ PULL-it-sər is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in Newspaper journalism, John Allyn Berryman (originally John Allyn Smith) ( October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American Bernard Malamud ( April 26 1914, Brooklyn New York &ndash March 18 1986) was an author of novels and short stories Jean Stafford ( July 1, 1915 &ndash March 26, 1979) was an American short story writer and novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize Robert Lowell (March 1 1917&ndashSeptember 12 1977 born Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV, was an American Poet whose works confessional in nature Paul Horgan (born Buffalo New York, 1903 - died Middletown Connecticut, 1995 was an American Author of fiction and non-fiction most of which Lanford Wilson (born on April 13, 1937 in Lebanon Missouri) is an American Playwright. James Schuyler ( 9 November 1923 &ndash 12 April 1991) was a major American Poet in the late 20th century Charles Fuller is best known for A Soldier's Play, winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Marsha Norman (b September 21, 1947) is an American Playwright, screenwriter television writer and novelist Thomas Lauren Friedman (born July 20, 1953) is an American journalist columnist and author Oscar Hijuelos (born August 24 1951) is an American Novelist He is the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American Poet. Life Wright was born in Pickwick Dam Tennessee, Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an award-winning American Writer, best known for his 1998 Novel The Hours John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is a Pulitzer Prize -winning writer widely considered one of the pioneers of narrative nonfiction Margaret Edson (born July 4, 1961 in Washington DC) is an American Playwright. Charles Kenneth Williams (b November 4 1936, Newark New Jersey) is an American poet David Auburn (born 1969 is an American Playwright. He was born in Chicago, and raised in Ohio and Arkansas. Louis Menand (born January 21, 1952) is a prominent American writer and academic best known for his Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960 in Detroit Michigan) is an American Pulitzer Prize Paul Muldoon (born 20 June 1951 is a writer academic and educator as well as Pulitzer Prize -winning poet from County Armagh, Northern Ireland Doug Wright is an award-winning American Playwright, Librettist, and Screenplay writer Marilynne Robinson (born 1943 is an American Author. Her 1980 novel Housekeeping (see 1980 in literature) won a Hemingway Foundation/PEN The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. Bernard Malamud ( April 26 1914, Brooklyn New York &ndash March 18 1986) was an author of novels and short stories Robert Lowell (March 1 1917&ndashSeptember 12 1977 born Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV, was an American Poet whose works confessional in nature John Allyn Berryman (originally John Allyn Smith) ( October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American Elizabeth Bishop ( February 8, 1911 &ndash October 6, 1979) was an American Poet and Writer from Worcester Isaac Bashevis Singer (יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער (November 21 1902 (see notes below – July 24 1991 was a Nobel Prize -winning Polish -born Donald Barthelme ( April 7, 1931 – July 23, 1989) was an American author of short fiction and Novels He also Mary Flannery O'Connor ( March 25 1925 &ndash August 3 1964) was an American Novelist, Short-story Richard B Sewall ( 1908 - 16 April 2003) was a professor of English at Yale University, and author of the influential works The Life Arlen (1976)
  • Tom Wolfe (1980)

Other authors published by FSG

Notes

  1. ^ Norman Angell, After All: The Autobiography of Norman Angell (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1951; rpt. Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr (born March 2, 1931 in Richmond, Virginia) known as Tom Wolfe, is a Best-selling Paula Fox (born April 22, 1923) is an American author of novels for adults and children and two memoirs This article is about the American novelist not the composer/musician known for his collaborations with Blue Man Group. Thomas Lauren Friedman (born July 20, 1953) is an American journalist columnist and author Alice McDermott (born June 27, 1953) is Johns Hopkins University 's Richard A Macksey Professor of the Humanities Edward Ball (born 1958 is an American Writer born in Savannah Georgia, the son of an Episcopal priest from an old Southern family in Charleston Susan Sontag ( January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American Literary theorist, Philosopher, Jonathan Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an award-winning American Novelist and Essayist Early life and education Shirley Hazzard (born 30 January 1931) is an author of Fiction and Non-fiction. Charles Kenneth Williams (b November 4 1936, Newark New Jersey) is an American poet Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American Novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology For Denis Johnson from London who invented the bicycle forerunner called "hoy horse" see Denis Johnson (inventor. Emily Barton (born 1969 is an American Author. She was raised in New Jersey, and attended Harvard University and the University of Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934 is an English Author and Tony Award -winning Playwright. Maurice Berger Cultural historian, Curator, and Art critic.Born New York City 1956 Biography Maurice Berger is a Cultural historian Robert S Corrington (born 1950 is an American Theologist and author of several books exploring human interpretation of the universe as well as biographies on C Jim Crace (born March 1, 1946 in Hertfordshire, England) is a contemporary English writer Arthur Coleman Danto (born 1924 is an American Art critic, and Professor of Philosophy. Deborah Eisenberg (born 1945 is an American Short-story writer actor and teacher Anne Fadiman (born August 7, 1953) is an American author editor and teacher Carlos Fuentes Macías (born March 11,1928 is a Mexican writer and one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the Spanish -speaking world Amy Gerstler (born in 1956 is an American Poet. Her books of poetry include Ghost Girl (2004 Medicine (2000 - finalist for the Phi Philip Gourevitch (born 1961 an American -Jewish author and journalist is the editor of " The Paris Review " and a longtime staff writer of The Sheila Heti (born 25 December 1976) is a Canadian writer Heti who was born in Toronto, Ontario, studied art history and philosophy Edward James Hughes OM ( 17 August 1930 &ndash 28 October 1998) was an English Poet and children's Jamaica Kincaid (b Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson, 25 May 1949 in St William Kilborn Knott (born 1940 in Carson City, Michigan, US) is a Poet. Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa (born March 28 1936 is a Peruvian writer Politician, Journalist, and Essayist. Douglas Nigel Marlette ( December 6, 1949 – July 10, 2007) was a Pulitzer Prize -winning American Editorial cartoonist Edward Mendelson is a professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. Sigrid Nunez is an United Sates author of five novels including her debut A Feather on the Breath of God A Novel (1996 ISBN 0-06-092684-8 Jenny Offill (born in 1968 is an American Author born in Massachusetts and raised in California and North Carolina George Packer (born August 13 1960 is a liberal American journalist novelist and playwright Walker Percy ( May 28, 1916 &ndash May 10, 1990) was an American Southern author whose interests included Philosophy Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American Novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology Wilhelm Reich ( March 24, 1897 – November 3, 1957) was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark New Jersey) is an American novelist Alex Ross (born 1968 is an American music critic He has been on the staff of The New Yorker magazine since 1996 and published an important book on 20th-century classical For Polish place names see Turów. Scott Turow (born April 12, 1949) is an American Author as well as a practicing Katharine Weber (born 1955 is an American novelist Weber was born in New York City. Elie Wiesel (born Eliezer Wiesel on September 30 1928 in Sighetu Marmaţiei, Romania) is a Jewish writer professor political activist Andrew Norman Wilson (born 27 October, 1950) is an English writer known for his critical biographies novels and works of popular and cultural history Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American Poet. Life Wright was born in Pickwick Dam Tennessee, Lois-Ann Yamanaka (born September 7, 1961 in Hoʻolehua Molokaʻi, Hawaiʻi) is a Japanese-American poet and novelist from Hawaii Sir Ralph Norman Angell (born 26 December 1872 and died 7 October 1967) was an English lecturer writer and Member of Parliament For other uses of the name Hamish Hamilton please see Hamish Hamilton (disambiguation Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952). Farrar Straus and Giroux is an American book Publishing company founded in 1946 by Roger W

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