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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
Benjamin Blom, Inc.	The publishing firm of Benjamin Blom, Inc. was acquired by Arno Press in 1975. Arno Press was by that time a wholly owned subsidiary of the New York Times, and part of Times Books. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 18, and see the FOB entries for Arno Press and Times Books.	2008
Brewer and Warren, Inc.	The publishing firm of Brewer and Warren, Inc. was established in 1930 in New York as the successor firm to Payson and Clarke (q.v.). In 1931, the firm changed its name to Brewer, Warren and Putnam, and in 1932 it 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 Brewer and Warren in 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 68.	2008
Charter Communications, Inc.	There have been several firms called Charter Communications, including a television, cable and internet company founded around 1993 and now based in St Louis (www.charter.com). The publishing company called Charter Communications, Inc. purchased Ace Books (q.v.) in 1969 and in 1977 was itself acquired by Grosset & Dunlap. See the FOB entry for Grosset & Dunlap, which indicates that the firm was acquired by Putnam Berkley in 1982. Putnam Berkley was bought by Penguin in 1997, and is part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com; the company history pages of us.penguingroup.com; and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 5-8.	2008
Chronimed, Inc.	The publishing sections of Chronimed were acquired by Wiley in 1997. See www.wiley.com.	2008
Claude Kendall, Inc.	Claude Kendall founded his own publishing house in New York in 1929. In 1934 the firm was renamed Claude Kendall and Willoughby Sharp. In 1936 it became Claude Kendall, Inc., but the firm went bankrupt and out of business that same year. Kendall himself was murdered in 1937. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 199.	2008
Cognitive Concepts, Inc.	The firm of Cognitive Concepts, Inc. was acquired by Houghton Mifflin in 2003. See www.hmco.com.	2009
Criterion Books, Inc.	Criterion Books, Inc. was a publishing firm founded in New York in 1953. In 1960 the firm was acquired by Abelard-Schuman, Inc. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 3, and see the FOB entry for Abelard-Schuman, Inc., which indicates that the firm is now in the ownership of the HarperCollins division of News Corporation.	2008
Esquire, Inc.	The firm of Esquire, Inc. was purchased by Simon & Schuster in 1984. By that time Esquire, Inc. was a major publisher of textbooks but no longer owned 'Esquire' magazine. See www.simonsays.com.	2008
Faber & Faber, Inc.	Faber & Faber, Inc., also known as Faber & Faber (USA), is a completely separate company from its original British parent Faber & Faber Ltd. Faber & Faber, Inc. was purchased by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1998 and is now part of the Macmillan division of Holtzbrinck. See us.macmillan.com. For the independent British company see www.faber.co.uk.	2008

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