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P. J. Kenedy and Sons	The publishing firm of P. J. Kenedy was founded in New York in 1866 as the successor firm to John Kenedy and Son (q.v.), on the death of John Kenedy. The firm was initially in the sole ownership of Patrick John Kenedy. His sons Arthur and Lewis Kenedy became directors of the firm in 1904 and it was renamed P. J. Kenedy and Sons. P. J. Kenedy died in 1906. In 1969 the firm was acquired by Macmillan Inc. of New York and the use of its name came to an end around 1982. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 237-239, and see the FOB entry for Macmillan Inc.	2009
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
Palgrave Macmillan	Palgrave Macmillan is an academic publishing imprint of Macmillan. Since 1999, Macmillan has been wholly owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group. See www.holtzbrinck.com.	2009
Pan Books	Pan Books was founded in 1944, and became a mass circulation paperback publisher jointly owned by Collins, Macmillan, Heinemann and Hodder & Stoughton. In 1987 Pan became a wholly owned subsidiary of Macmillan. Since 1999, Macmillan has been wholly owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group, with Pan Macmillan as one of the company's principal divisions. See www.holtzbrinck.com.	2006
Pantheon Books	Pantheon Books was founded in New York in 1942 by a group of European exiles from Nazism. In 1961 the firm was purchased by Random House and made part of the Knopf Publishing Group. Random House is now owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/pantheon and www.bertelsmann.com.	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
Paragraphic Books	Paragraphic Books was a photography and graphics imprint of Grossman Publishers, started in 1965. See the FOB entry for Grossman, which indicates that the firm is now part of Viking, which is part of Penguin USA, which in turn is part of the Pearson Group. See us.penguingroup.com and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 167-168.	2008
Parthenon Publishing	In 2006 there were at least three separate firms trading as Parthenon Publishing in the USA and the UK. As a medical publisher, Parthenon Publishing is an imprint of CRC Press, which is a member of the Taylor & Francis Group. See the FOB entry for CRC Press and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2006
Passeggiata Press	Donald Herdeck established Three Continents Press in 1971, focusing on new works or works in translation from Africa, America, and the Caribbean. By 1993 Herdeck was publishing works by writers living and writing in five continents. Herdeck frequently made co-publishing arrangements with Heinemann Educational Books and later with a portion of Longman's Drumbeat Series. Poor health prompted Herdeck to sell 167 of his titles to Lynne Rienner, a Colorado publisher, in August 1996. He retained rights to 60 titles and marketed these, and several additional contract commitments, under the new company name of Passeggiata Press. Herdeck died in 2005, and the last book bearing the Passeggiata Press imprint was published by his widow Margaret in 2007.	2025
Patrick Donahoe	Patrick Donahoe was the owner and publisher of the 'Boston Pilot' in the years 1836-1876 and 1891-1901. Between about 1850 and 1876 he also ran an occasional book-publishing firm in his own name. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 132.	2009

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