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Mitchell Kennerley	Mitchell Kennerley founded his own publishing house in New York in 1906. Most of the firm's titles were published in the period 1906-1924, and the final Mitchell Kennerley book came out in 1938. Kennerley himself committed suicide in 1950. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 200-202.	2008
Modern Age Books	Modern Age Books was a publishing firm founded in New York in 1937 by Richard S. Childs. The firm went out of business in 1942, when its assets were sold to other publishers, chiefly Viking Press. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 239, and see the FOB entry for Viking Press, which indicates that the firm was acquired by Penguin Books in 1975, and is now part of the Pearson Group. See us.penguingroup.com.	2008
Modern Library	The Modern Library was founded as an imprint of Boni and Liveright (q.v.) in New York in 1917. Its original name was The Modern Library of the World's Best Books. In 1925 the Modern Library was purchased from Boni and Liveright by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. In 1927 Cerf and Klopfer changed the name of the firm to Random House. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 242-245; the FOB entry for Random House; and www.randomhouse.com.	2008
Moffat, Yard and Company	The publishing firm of Moffat, Yard and Company was founded in New York in 1905 by William David Moffat and Robert Sterling Yard. In 1924 the firm was acquired by Dodd, Mead and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 245-247 and see the FOB entry for Dodd, Mead and Company, which indicates that the firm went out of business in 1989-90.	2008
Monacelli Press	The Monacelli Press was founded in New York in 1994 as a visual arts book publisher. In 2008 the firm was acquired by Random House, Inc., which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.monacellipress.com and www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
Moon Publications	Moon Publications was founded in 1973 as a travel publishing firm. In 1999 Moon Publications, John Muir Publications and Foghorn Press merged to form the new firm of Avalon Travel. Avalon Travel is now part of the Perseus Books Group. See www.avalontravelbooks.com and www.perseusbooks.com.	2008
Muller, Blond & White Ltd	The firm of Muller, Blond & White Ltd was formed in the 1980s by the merger of Blond & Briggs Ltd and Frederick Muller Ltd. See the FOB entries for these two firms, which are now part of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Multnomah Publishers	Multnomah Publishers was founded as an evangelical Christian publishing house in Sisters, Oregon. In August 2006 the firm was purchased by Random House, which is owned by Bertelsmann, and is now part of the WaterBrook Multnomah group within Random House. See www.randomhouse.com and www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
Munksgaard	The Danish publishing house of Munksgaard was founded in Copenhagen in 1917. In 1963 the firm was purchased by the Oxford publishers Blackwell, and it remains part of the Blackwell organisation. See www.blackwellpublishing.com (this website remains current after Blackwell became part of Wiley in February 2007).	2008
Murray Pollinger	Murray Pollinger and Gerald Pollinger, with their father Laurence Pollinger, founded the literary agency Laurence Pollinger Ltd in 1958. Gerald Pollinger went on to become managing director of Laurence Pollinger Ltd, while Murray Pollinger established his own firm which he ran until his retirement in 1996. Subsequently the firm of Murray Pollinger became part of David Higham Associates. See www.davidhigham.co.uk.	2006

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