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Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.	Alfred A. Knopf founded his publishing house in New York in 1915. The library and archive of the firm were acquired by the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, in 1959. In 1960 the firm was sold to Random House, which is now owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/knopf and www.bertelsmann.com.	2009
Alfred H. King, Inc.	Alfred H. King, Inc. was a publishing firm in New York in the early 1930s. In 1935 the firm was purchased by Julian Messner. See the FOB entry for Julian Messner, Inc., which indicates that the firm was acquired by Simon & Schuster in the 1960s. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 235-237 and www.simonsays.com.	2008
Carey Kingsgate Press Ltd	The Carey Kingsgate Press was formed by a merger of the Carey Press of the Baptist Missionary Society and the Kingsgate Press of the Baptist Union in about 1947. The imprint ceased to be used from the end of the 1960s and both the Baptist Missionary Society (now BMS World Mission) and the Baptist Union have since then published under their own names. See www.bmsworldmission.org and www.baptist.org.uk.	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
Crowell-Collier	The Crowell publishing firm was founded by the Crowell family and others in the 1870s. Originally named Crowell, Mast & Kirkpatrick and then Crowell & Kirkpatrick, it became the Crowell Publishing Company in 1902. In 1919 Crowell purchased P. F. Collier & Son 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 and also the separate FOB entry for Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.	2009
Dorling Kindersley	Dorling Kindersley (www.dk.com) was founded in 1974 by Peter Kindersley and Christopher Dorling. The company was purchased by Penguin UK in 2000. Penguin UK is part of Pearson plc. See www.pearson.com.	2009
H. S. King & Co.	Henry S. King founded the firm of H. S. King & Co. in 1868. His business was purchased by Charles Kegan Paul in 1877. It was then incorporated into Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. from 1878 and Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. from 1889. In 1912 Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. merged with George Routledge & Sons to form Routledge & Kegan Paul. The Routledge Group was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1998. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.routledge.com.	2008
J. K. Lasser	The firm of J. K. Lasser was established as a publishing firm with a specialism in taxation, beginning with 'Your income tax' by Jacob Kay Lasser (1896-1954). The firm evolved into the J. K. Lasser Institute, which was acquired by Wiley in 1999. See www.jklasser.com and www.wiley.com.	2013
John Kenedy and Son	John Kenedy founded his publishing firm in Baltimore in 1826. In 1838 the business moved to New York. John Kenedy died in 1866. The firm was then run by his son Patrick John Kenedy, first as P. J. Kenedy (1866-1904) and then as P. J. Kenedy and Sons. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 237-239, and see the FOB entry for P. J. Kenedy and Sons.	2009
Joseph Knight Company	The Joseph Knight Company was purchased by Lewis Coues Page in 1896 and renamed L. C. Page & Company. L. C. Page & Company was purchased by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (later Farrar, Straus & Giroux) in 1957. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com.	2008

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