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| Green Light Readers | Green Light Readers was established as a children's imprint of Harcourt, Brace & Company. See the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace. From 2007 Green Light Readers is an imprint of Harcourt Children's Books, within Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.hmhco.com and www.harcourtbooks.com. | 2008 |
| Greenberg Publisher | The firm of Greenberg Publisher was founded in New York in 1924 by Jacob W. Greenberg. In 1958 the firm was acquired by Chilton Publishing Company. See the FOB entry for Chilton Publishing Company, and see 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 164. | 2008 |
| Greenhaven Press | Greenhaven Press was founded in the 1970s as the publisher of Opposing Viewpoints. The firm was purchased in 2000 by the Thomson Gale division of the Thomson Corporation. See www.gale.com. | 2006 |
| Greenwillow Books | Greenwillow Books was founded in 1974 as an autonomous children's book division of William Morrow & Company. The founding editor was Susan Hirschman. See the FOB entry for William Morrow & Company, which indicates that in 1999 the firm was acquired by News Corporation and incorporated into HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com and www.harpercollins.com. Greenwillow continues to be used as an imprint by HarperCollins. | 2008 |
| Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. | Greenwood Press was founded as an academic and educational publisher in 1967. The firm was acquired in 1969 by Williamhouse-Regency, then by Congressional Information Service and then by Elsevier (later Reed Elsevier). In 1996 the Greenwood Publishing Group merged with Heinemann Publishing to create Greenwood-Heinemann, which later became part of Harcourt Education. See the entries in FOB for all the firms bearing the name of Heinemann. Greenwood Publishing Group (including Heinemann USA) later became part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and then ABC-CLIO. See www.abc-clio.com/greenwood-authors. | 2020 |
| Greenwood-Heinemann | Greenwood Press was founded as an academic and educational publisher in 1967. The firm was acquired in 1969 by Williamhouse-Regency, then by Congressional Information Service and then by Elsevier (later Reed Elsevier). In 1996 the Greenwood Publishing Group merged with Heinemann Publishing to create Greenwood-Heinemann, which later became part of Harcourt Education. See the entries in FOB for all the firms bearing the name of Heinemann. From 2008, the Greenwood Publishing Group (including Heinemann USA) is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.greenwood.com and www.hmhco.com. | 2008 |
| Gregg Publishing Company | John Robert Gregg (1867-1948) invented his own shorthand system and published books about it. Gregg Publishing Company was formed for this purpose, in Chicago. In 1948 the firm was acquired by the McGraw-Hill Book Company. See www.mcgraw-hill.com. There have been several other small firms called Gregg Publishing, including one based in Haywards Heath, UK. | 2008 |
| Grenville Press | Grenville Press was the original name of Scolar Press. See the FOB entry for Scolar Press. | 2007 |
| Grolier, Inc. | Grolier was founded in Boston in 1895 as the Grolier Society. See the account of the firm in Mary Lou Roberts & Paul D. Berger: 'Direct marketing management' (2nd ed., 1998). Grolier was purchased by Hachette in 1988. In 2000 most of the Grolier firm (but not its Franklin Watts and Orchard divisions) was acquired by Scholastic, Inc. See 'The Bookseller', 21 April 2000, and www.scholastic.com. | 2008 |
| Grosset & Dunlap | The firm of Grosset & Dunlap was founded in 1898. In 1982 the firm was purchased by G. P. Putnam's Sons (of the Putnam Berkley Group). Putnam Berkley was bought by Penguin in 1997, and is part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com and the company history pages of us.penguingroup.com. | 2008 |
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