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| Otis, Broaders and Company | The publishing firm of Otis, Broaders and Company was founded in Boston in 1836 by James Otis and Edward R. Broaders. The firm went out of business in 1850. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 348. | 2009 |
| Outing Publishing Company | Outing Publishing Company was founded in New York in 1905 by James K. Reeve. In 1909 the firm went bankrupt, but it was later reconstituted and in 1918 its book list was purchased by Macmillan. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 267 and www.macmillan.com. | 2008 |
| Outlet Book Company | Outlet Book Company was founded in 1933 by Nat Wartels and Bob Simon. The firm is today a division of Random House, Inc., known as Random House Value Publishing. Random House is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com and www.bertelsmann.com. | 2008 |
| P. F. Collier & Son | 'Collier's Weekly' was founded in 1888 (as 'Collier's Once A Week') and formed the early basis of the publishing house of P. F. Collier & Son. Peter Fenelon Collier died in 1909. In 1919 P. F. Collier & Son was purchased by Crowell and the firm was renamed Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. Crowell-Collier was purchased by the Macmillan Company of New York in 1960. The Crowell-Collier business and imprints formed part of the purchase of Macmillan Inc. by Simon & Schuster in 1994. See www.simonsays.com. | 2006 |
| Padell Publishing Company | Padell Publishing Company was founded by Max Padell around 1938 in New York. After Max Padell's death the firm was continued by his grandson Avram C. Freedberg, but went out of business in 1981. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 270. | 2008 |
| Pantheon Casa Editrice | Pantheon Casa Editrice was an art publishing house founded by Kurt Wolff in Leipzig in 1924. In 1941 Wolff fled Germany for the USA, and in 1942 he became one of the founders of Pantheon Books in New York. See the FOB entry for Pantheon Books and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 270. | 2008 |
| Payson and Clarke | The publishing firm of Payson and Clarke was founded by William Farquhar Payson and James L. Clarke in New York in 1924. Clarke sold his share of the company in 1927 and Payson left in 1928, leaving the firm in the hands of Edward K. Warren and Joseph Brewer. In 1930 the firm was renamed Brewer and Warren and in 1932 Brewer and Warren was purchased by Harcourt, Brace & Company. See the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace & Company, which traces the firm to the formation of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2008, and see the account of Payson and Clarke in 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 277. | 2008 |
| Pelligrini & Cudahy | The publishing firm of Pelligrini & Cudahy was purchased by Farrar, Straus & Young in 1953. The enlarged firm became known as Farrar, Straus & Cudahy before becoming Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1964. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com. | 2008 |
| Penn Publishing Company | The Penn Publishing Company was founded in Philadelphia in 1889 by Charles C. Shoemaker. The firm went bankrupt in 1941 and its assets were acquired by the Harlem Book Company, which restarted the firm as William Penn Publishing Corporation. This new company failed in 1943, however, and its assets were acquired by Alfred A. Knopf. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 357 and see the FOB entry for Alfred A. Knopf Inc. | 2009 |
| Peter Collin Publishing | Peter Collin Publishing now forms part of A. & C. Black, which in turn is owned by Bloomsbury. See the FOB entry for A. & C. Black, and www.acblack.com. | 2014 |
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