Farrar, Straus and Giroux explained

Parent:Macmillan Publishers
Country:United States
Headquarters:Equitable BuildingNew York City, New York
Imprints:MCD, FSG Originals

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar.[1] FSG is known for publishing literary books, and its authors have won numerous awards, including Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, and Nobel Prizes. the publisher is a division of Macmillan, whose parent company is the German publishing conglomerate Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.[2]

Founding

Farrar, Straus, and Company was founded in 1945[3] by Roger W. Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar.[4] The first book was Yank: The G.I. Story of the War, a compilation of articles that appeared in Yank, the Army Weekly, then There Were Two Pirates, a novel by James Branch Cabell.

The first years of existence were rough until they published the diet book Look Younger, Live Longer by Gayelord Hauser in 1950. The book went on to sell 500,000 copies and Straus said that the book carried them along for a while. In the early years, Straus and his wife Dorothea, went prospecting for books in Italy. It was there that they found the memoir Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi and other rising Italian authors: Alberto Moravia, Giovannino Guareschi and Cesare Pavese. Farrar, Straus also poached or lured away authors from other publishers—one was Edmund Wilson, who was unhappy with Random House at the time but remained with Farrar, Straus for the remainder of his career.

In 1950, the name changed to Farrar, Straus & Young (for Stanley Young, a playwright, author (at Farrar & Rinehart[5]), a literary critic for The New York Times, and an original stockholder and board member).[6] [7] [8]

Merger

In 1953, Pellegrini & Cudahy merged with Farrar, Straus & Young.[9]

Robert Giroux joined the company in 1955, and after he later became a partner, the name was changed to Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Giroux had been working for Harcourt and had been angered when Harcourt refused to allow him to publish Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. Giroux brought many literary authors with him including Thomas Merton, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Flannery O'Connor, Jack Kerouac, Peter Taylor, Randall Jarrell, T.S. Eliot, and Bernard Malamud. Alan Williams described Giroux's "Pied Piper sweep" as "almost certainly the greatest number of authors to follow, on their own initiative, a single editor from house to house in the history of modern publishing." In 1964, Straus named Giroux chairman of the board and officially added Giroux's name to the publishing company.

Sale

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.[10] [11] Straus offered FSG to the Holtzbrinck family because of their reputation for publishing serious works of literature.

21st century

Jonathan Galassi served as both president and publisher until 2018. Andrew Mandel joined in 2004 as deputy publisher. Eric Chinski is editor-in-chief. In 2008, Mitzi Angel came from Fourth Estate in the UK to be publisher of the Faber and Faber Inc. imprint. In 2018, Angel succeeded Galassi as publisher, and was named president in 2021.[12] Other notable editors include Sean McDonald, Daphne Durham, and Alex Star.

In February 2015 FSG and Faber and Faber announced the end of their partnership. All books scheduled for release and previously released under the imprint will be moved to the FSG colophon by August 2016.[13]

Name history

Current imprints

Former imprints

Bibliography

See main article: List of Farrar, Straus and Giroux books.

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). Books for Young Readers also publishes Natalie Babbitt, Roald Dahl, Jack Gantos, George Selden, Uri Shulevitz, Ozge Samanci, and Peter Sis.

Staff

Jack Kerouac's then-girlfriend Joyce Johnson, started work in 1957, when Sheila Cudahy was a partner at the firm.[35]

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Silverman, Al. The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors, and Authors. Truman Talley. 2008. 978-0312-35003-1.
  2. Web site: About Macmillan. Macmillan. us.macmillan.com. June 19, 2016. July 26, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220726134949/https://us.macmillan.com/about. live.
  3. Web site: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. records. archives.nypl.org. August 16, 2018. August 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/mss/979. live.
  4. Web site: Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Young. www.isfdb.org. August 16, 2018. August 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180816062909/http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?1667. live.
  5. News: New England, 1620; MAYFLOWER BOY. By Stanley Young. Illustrated by Edward Shenton. 272 pp. New York: Farrar & Rinehart. $2.. The New York Times. October 8, 1944 . August 16, 2018. August 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180816062156/https://www.nytimes.com/1944/10/08/archives/new-england-1620-mayflower-boy-by-stanley-young-illustrated-by.html. live.
  6. Web site: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: publishing's 'perfect storm'. Tom. Wallace. August 12, 2013. bookbrunch.co.uk. August 16, 2018. August 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180816061702/http://bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-article/farrar-straus-giroux-publishings-perfect-storm/. live.
  7. Web site: Stanley Young. www.williamsamericanart.com. August 16, 2018. August 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180816062359/http://www.williamsamericanart.com/Artist_Biographies/Stanley_Young/. live.
  8. Book: Kachka, Boris. Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. August 12, 2014. Simon and Schuster. August 16, 2018. Google Books. 9781451691917. April 9, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220409185907/https://books.google.com/books?id=zP86BAAAQBAJ&q=Stanley&pg=PA63. live.
  9. News: 2 BOOK PUBLISHERS MERGE; Pellegrini & Cudahy Unite With Farrar, Straus & Young. The New York Times. April 4, 1953 . August 16, 2018. August 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180816062159/https://www.nytimes.com/1953/04/04/archives/2-book-publishers-merge-pellegrini-cudahy-unite-with-farrar-straus.html. live.
  10. Web site: Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20111028045240/http://www.mediadb.eu/datenbanken/deutsche-medienkonzerne/verlagsgruppe-georg-von-holtzbrinck.html. October 28, 2011. January 15, 2022. www.mediadb.eu.
  11. News: Landler. Mark. October 14, 2002. Another German Publisher Mulls Its Wartime Past. en-US. The New York Times. January 15, 2022. 0362-4331. The Von Holtzbrinck Group, the conglomerate that owns Farrar Straus and Giroux and other gilded names in American publishing, has disclosed that it has hired a writer to research the company's history from 1933 to 1945.. January 15, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220115110049/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/14/business/another-german-publisher-mulls-its-wartime-past.html. live.
  12. News: 2 FSG Promotes Mitzi Angel to President. The New York Times. October 25, 2021 . October 27, 2021. October 26, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211026181532/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/25/books/mitzi-angel-farrar-straus-giroux.html. live. Harris . Elizabeth A..
  13. Web site: Farrington. Joshua. Faber ends FSG partnership. The Bookseller. July 19, 2015. August 6, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200806131919/https://www.thebookseller.com/news/faber-ends-fsg-partnership. live.
  14. Web site: History of Farrar, Straus and Giroux Inc.. www.fundinguniverse.com. August 16, 2018. August 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180816125839/http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/farrar-straus-and-giroux-inc-history/. live.
  15. Web site: Library of Congress LCCN Permalink n96043234. lccn.loc.gov. August 16, 2018. August 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180816061848/https://lccn.loc.gov/n96043234. live.
  16. News: Roger W. Straus Jr., Book Publisher From the Age of the Independents, Dies at 87. Christopher. Lehmann-Haupt. The New York Times. May 27, 2004 . August 16, 2018. August 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180816062136/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/27/books/roger-w-straus-jr-book-publisher-from-the-age-of-the-independents-dies-at-87.html. live.
  17. Web site: Library of Congress LCCN Permalink n96043241. lccn.loc.gov. August 16, 2018. August 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180816062156/https://lccn.loc.gov/n96043241. live.
  18. Web site: Letterhead, Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, Inc., New York, NY, 1958. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. August 16, 2018. August 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180816062024/https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18645371/. live.
  19. Web site: Library of Congress LCCN Permalink no2015030156. lccn.loc.gov. August 16, 2018. August 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180816093610/https://lccn.loc.gov/no2015030156. live.
  20. Web site: Library of Congress LCCN Permalink nr96042512. lccn.loc.gov. August 16, 2018. August 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180816062011/https://lccn.loc.gov/nr96042512. live.
  21. Web site: Anatomy of a Publisher. newyorker.com. August 5, 2013 . August 16, 2018. August 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180816093618/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/12/anatomy-of-a-publisher. live.
  22. Web site: Library of Congress LCCN Permalink n96043257. lccn.loc.gov. August 16, 2018. August 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180816062153/https://lccn.loc.gov/n96043257. live.
  23. Web site: House of Galassi. publishersweekly.com. August 16, 2018. August 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180816064732/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20060731/16225-house-of-galassi.html. live.
  24. Web site: Guide to the Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. Records. Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library.. August 16, 2018. July 7, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170707224504/https://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/archivalcollections/pdf/979_0.pdf. live.
  25. Web site: Weinman . Sarah . McDonald Named Publisher of New FSG Imprint, and More . lunch.publishersmarketplace.com . May 9, 2016 . July 4, 2017 . August 16, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180816061923/https://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2016/05/mcdonald-named-publisher-new-fsg-imprint/ . live .
  26. Web site: People Round-Up, Mid-May 2016 . Publishing Trends . May 17, 2016 . July 4, 2017 . June 15, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170615143826/http://www.publishingtrends.com/2016/05/people-round-up-mid-may-2016/ . live .
  27. Web site: HILL AND WANG . January 9, 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080118145731/http://www.fsgbooks.com/hillandwang.htm . January 18, 2008. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  28. Web site: Library of Congress LCCN Permalink no2006079532. lccn.loc.gov. August 16, 2018. August 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180816062044/https://lccn.loc.gov/no2006079532. live.
  29. Web site: Crichton gets imprint at FSG. Zeitchik. Steven. Publishers Weekly. June 14, 2004. February 20, 2014. August 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180816061706/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20040614/26980-crichton-gets-imprint-at-fsg.html. live.
  30. Web site: Crichton to Leave FSG at End of Year. Publishers Weekly. August 16, 2018. August 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180816093558/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/people/article/77011-crichton-to-leave-fsg-at-end-of-year.html. live.
  31. Web site: Publishers Weekly . Gabe . Habash . FSG, 'Scientific American' Roll Out New Imprint . May 18, 2012 . July 31, 2022.
  32. Web site: News Shorts .
  33. Web site: Melanie Kroupa to Join Marshall Cavendish.
  34. Web site: FSG Originals x Logic. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2023. 24 July 2023.
  35. Web site: Giving An 'F': Rewriting The History Of FSG. theawl.com. August 16, 2018. August 16, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180816062127/https://www.theawl.com/2014/04/giving-an-f-rewriting-the-history-of-fsg/. live.

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