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| Astor-Honor, Inc. | The publishing firm of McDowell, Obolensky was founded in New York in 1957 by David McDowell and Ivan Obolensky. In 1960 McDowell left the firm, which continued as Ivan Obolensky, Inc. In 1967 the firm was reconstituted as Astor-Honor, Inc., publishing Astor Books and Honor Books. Astor-Honor went out of business in 1968. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 229-231. | 2008 |
| Athenaeum | The Athenaeum magazine was founded in 1828 and continued until 1921, when it was incorporated into 'The Nation'. In the 1920s the title 'The Nation and Athenaeum' was often used. In 1931 'The Nation and Athenaeum' was taken over by 'The New Statesman'. See www.newstatesman.com/nsabout.htm. | 2007 |
| Athene Publishing Co. Ltd | The Athene Publishing Co. of Wellingborough and London was closely associated with Thorsons in the 1950s and 1960s. By 1967 the firm was described as a subsidiary of Thorsons. See the FOB entry for Thorsons, which indicates that the firm and its rights now belong to HarperCollins. See www.harpercollins.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Atheneum Publishers | The firm of Atheneum Publishers was founded in New York in 1959. In 1978 the firm was acquired by Charles Scribner's Sons, which in turn was acquired by the US Macmillan company in 1984. See the FOB entry for Macmillan, Inc., which describes the complex arrangements for the break-up of that company after the death of Robert Maxwell. According to the Simon & Schuster website, Atheneum was included in the part of Charles Scribner's Sons which was acquired by Simon & Schuster in 1994. Scribner and Atheneum remain Simon & Schuster imprints. See www.simonsays.com. | 2008 |
| Atlantic Monthly Press | Atlantic Monthly Press was founded in 1917 as the publishing division of the Atlantic Monthly Company. In 1993 the firm was merged with Grove Press to form Grove/Atlantic Inc. See www.groveatlantic.com. | 2008 |
| Auburn House | The publishing firm of Auburn House was acquired by Greenwood Publishing Group in 1989. See the FOB entry for Greenwood Publishing Group, which indicates that from 2008 the firm is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.greenwood.com and www.hmhco.com. The use of the name Auburn House was discontinued from 2002, when Auburn House was absorbed into Praeger (q.v.). | 2008 |
| Austin & Winfield Publishers, Inc. | The legal publishing firm of Austin & Winfield Publishers, Inc. is now part of University Press of America, which in turn is part of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. See www.univpress.com and www.rowmanlittlefield.com. | 2008 |
| Authors' Publishing Company | The Authors' Publishing Company was a cooperative publishing venture begun in New York in 1873. The firm was dissolved in 1880. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 29-30. | 2009 |
| Avalon Travel | Avalon Travel was formed in 1999 from a merger of three independent travel publishers: Moon Publications, John Muir Publications and Foghorn Press. (Each has its own entry in FOB.) Avalon Travel is now part of the Perseus Books Group. See www.perseusbooks.com. | 2008 |
| Avon Books | Avon Books was founded by the American News Corporation in 1941. In 1959 the firm was sold to the Hearst Corporation, and in 1999 it was sold by Hearst to News Corporation, where it was incorporated into HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com and www.harpercollins.com. | 2008 |
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